Ambivalent Accommodation: The Politics of Religious Leaders and the Hybrid Regime in Uganda.
This paper explores the political approaches of community-based Christian and Muslim leaders in Uganda, using interview data from 2017 to 2021. It extends theories about when and why religious leaders mobilize for political reform, updated to reflect the rise of the "hybrid regime" in Africa and rec...
| Publicado en: | Sociology of Religion Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 221 - 244 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Summer2026
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