Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion
Subtitle: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199681150
Subjects: Religion and politics; Democracy, religious aspects
Description: A ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy writing about one of our most pressing issues. Alan S. Kahan, a leading Tocqueville scholar, shows how Tocqueville's analysis of religion is simultaneously deeply rooted in his thoughts on nineteenth-century France and America and pertinent to us today