Evangelicals and politics: A comparison between Africa and Latin America

Abstract

The article looks at the growing evangelical involvement in Third World politics through a comparison of Latin America and Africa. The key Latin American cases (Peru, Guatemala, Chile, Colombia and, at greater length, Brazil) are surveyed, the burgeoning literature on evangelical politics in sub‐Saharan Africa is critically reviewed and suggestions are made for further research in both continents, stressing the need for detailed country‐level studies in the increasing understanding of this major trend in global religion.

Notes

I am grateful to Paul Gifford of SOAS for the invitation to speak on this topic at the conference of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Bristol, September 10, 1996.