POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jimmy Swaggart, Evangelicalism, Arab Spring
20 Feb 2016
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Religious competition with the rise of conservative evangelicalism. The number of practicing catholics is comparable to number of people in evangelical protestant groups: ex: election of jorge serrano as president of guatemala in 1991, ex: jimmy swaggart filled chile filled chiles" national stadium twice. A different democratic experience: fear of god, absolute decentralization- anyone can be a minister, no premium on literacy or being articulate, more authentic than catholicism, colour blind, women found this type of religion more appropriate because. More authentic? they believed that anything that hurt the family was wrong, i. e. drinking, family abuse, etc. Modernization theory was wrong: religion and ethnicity continue to play an important, often positive role in the world. Karl marx: instruemnet of class domination: ignores rolse of international system, an empirical question, rules out the possibility of state autonomy, the monopoly of legitimate use of physical force within a given, 4 key concepts:
