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Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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For scholars studying religion and politics in Latin America

Explains why evangelicals struggle for political representation

You will understand the dynamics of faith and politics

This book explores the political influence of evangelicals in Latin America.

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.

  • Title

    Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World

  • Author

    Taylor C. Boas (boston University)

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2023

  • Weight

    672g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781009275071

  • ISBN-10

    1009275070

  • Eden Code

    6139442

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