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Gerrie ter Haar
Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Publications - 31
Citations - 1088
Gerrie ter Haar is an academic researcher from Erasmus University Rotterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social change & Politics. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1052 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerrie ter Haar include International Institute of Minnesota.
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Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa
Stephen Ellis,Gerrie ter Haar +1 more
TL;DR: With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions, it is clear that the world is not heading towards a community of secular states.
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The Role of Religion in Development: Towards a New Relationship between the European Union and Africa
Gerrie ter Haar,Stephen Ellis +1 more
TL;DR: The resilience of religion in developing countries is now plain to see as discussed by the authors, and the role of the religious dimension in Africa's development has been explored in the literature on development to consider ways in which religious ideas may be relevant to development thinking.
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Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Ellis,Gerrie ter Haar +1 more
TL;DR: A theory about the relationship between religion and politics in sub-Saharan Africa is presented in this paper, where the authors examine a couple of popular religious texts chosen by way of illustration, and draw conclusions about religion as a political idiom.
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Religion and politics: taking African epistemologies seriously
Stephen Ellis,Gerrie ter Haar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between politics and religion in Africa has been investigated, with potential benefits for observers not just of Africa, but also of other parts of the world where new combinations of religion and politics are emerging.
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Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe
Roswith Gerloff,Gerrie ter Haar +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, G. Ter Haar et al. discuss the signification du christianisme africain et des Eglises africains independant sur le continent europeen, and le premier a relater ce phenomene nouveau, dans l'histoire religieuse de l'Europe, de la migration internationale et de l''histoire socio-politique et religieus d'Afrique.