Responses to Rapid Social Change: Populist Religion in the Philippines
Christl Kessler and Jürgen Rüland
Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, Germany & University of Freiburg, Germany
Volume 79 No. 1, Spring 2006, pp. 73-96
Christl Kessler and Jürgen Rüland
Kessler and Rüland’s study addresses a question of significance across Asia and the Pacific — the role of religion as a vehicle for populism and popular mobilization. Their approach is innovative, well-argued and takes their findings well beyond the Christian and Philippine case.