Democracy in Crisis: Societies, Church and Theology
Editorial
Part One: Characteristics and Conditions of Democracies in Different Cultural Contexts
Beyond Multi-party Systems and Elections: Democratic Challenges in Africa
LUDOVIC LADO, THÉODORE NTSENGUE LEBONGO, JÉROME EMMANUEL BOUNTSEBE EKASSI AND EMÉRAN JOSEPH EVEGA EYENGA ONANA
The Catholic Church and Hong Kong’s Failed Democratization
CHIT WAI JOHN MOK
US Democracy: The Civil Sphere, Public Catholicism, and Alternative Futures
RICHARD L. WOOD
Part Two: Some Symptoms of the Crisis of Democracies
Populism, Polarization and the Crises of Democracy
MARCIA PALLY
Flashback: Catholic Post-Liberalism. Theoretical Support for Right-Wing Authoritarianism in the USA
JONAS HAGEDORN, NOAH HEINEMANN AND CHRISTOPHER WASHNOCK
Democracy and Corruption at the Limits of Globalized Neo-liberalism
BERNARDO PÉREZ ANDREO
Part Three: Democratic Cultures and Ecclesial and Theological Challenges
Secular Republic, Liberal Democracy and the Catholic Church’s Constitutional Doctrine
HERMANN-JOSEF GROSSE KRACHT
Polarization in the Church and the Synodal Logic of Pope Francis
CARLOS MARÍA GALLI
Theological Forum
The Synodal Path of the Churches in Italy: Learnings and Questions from a National Synodal Process
FRANCESCO ZACCARIA
“Strengthening Synodality for the Long Term”: The Synodal Path of the Local Church in Germany
MARGIT ECKHOLT
Project Vatican II – Event and Mandate: an Intercultural and Decolonial Rereading of the Council
SANDRA ARENAS

