From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa By Gwyneth H. McClendon and Rachel Beatty Riedl. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xii+ 274 pp. $39.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Abstract

These points, however, do not take away from the importance of the book, which remains a candid and valuable account of the Brotherhood and how the movement is evolving under the new circumstances of repression and forced exile. This book is certainly a must read for scholars of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, of Islamism and the identity politics of diaspora movements more broadly, due to its focus on exiled members. Because of its clarity in terms of writing, flow, and structure, the book is also easily accessible to students and therefore it lends itself well to be used in graduate and postgraduate courses on political science, sociology, and international relations.