Includes bibliographical references (pages 267- 305) and index.
Contents:
Explaining Evangelical Representation -- Voting Behavior and Political Institutions -- Growth, Diversity, and Political Theology -- Threats and Political Engagement in Brazil -- Comfort and Political Quiescence in Chile -- Cleavages and Political Ambivalence in Peru -- Conclusions and Comparative Perspectives.
Summary:
"Why are religious minorities well represented and politically influential in some democracies but not others? Focusing on evangelical Christians in Latin America, this book argues that religious minorities seek and gain electoral representation when they face significant threats to their material interests and worldview, and when their community is not internally divided by cross-cutting cleavages. Differences in Latin American evangelicals' political ambitions emerged as a result of two critical junctures: episodes of secular reform in the early twentieth century and the rise of sexuality politics at the turn of the twenty-first. In Brazil, significant threats at both junctures prompted extensive electoral mobilization; in Chile, minimal threats meant that mobilization lagged. In Peru, where major cleavages divide both evangelicals and broader society, threats prompt less electoral mobilization than otherwise expected. The multi-method argument leverages interviews, content analysis, survey experiments, ecological analysis, and secondary case studies of Colombia, Costa Rica, and Guatemala -- cPage [i] "This book will appeal to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in political science, sociology, Latin American studies, religious studies, theology, and history. It analyses six Latin American countries over more than a century, examining the historical struggle for religious equality and contemporary battles over abortion and LGBTQ rights"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Cambridge studies in social theory, religion and politics
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