The religious communication approach concerns the identification of causal explanations of
political behavior through the explicit measurement of exposure to communication and the …

A variety of theories attempt to explain why some individuals radicalize along religious lines.
Few studies, however, have jointly put these diverse hypotheses under empirical scrutiny …

Although public administration scholars have long studied discrimination on the basis of
race/ethnicity, class, and gender, little to no research exists on whether street‐level …

Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using
Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious …

How can ethnographic research improve surveys? I illustrate the benefit of sustained
qualitative research on survey design and implementation with reference to my own study of …

The effects of religion on political behavior are difficult to study for a number of reasons. One
difficulty is that “religion” is not a singular entity and is thus unlikely to have a unidirectional …

Since the 1980s, Pentecostal and other born again Christian movements have become
increasingly prominent in the public spheres of many sub-Saharan African states. A dearth …

Abstract When American Anglican and Lutheran churches elected to ordain same-sex
partnered clergy, nearly all African counterparts either denounced LGBTQ inclusion or …

This thesis deals with dynamics of life and death at the margins. Based on fieldwork carried
out in a large slum in the city of Belo Horizonte, here called Morro da Luz, an analysis is …

The younger generation in different countries have been said to be growing into
environmental consciousness. Are youths in the Kenyan religious landscape aware of the …