Alan S Kahan

Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion

Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking study of Tocqueville's views on the role of religion in democratic societies: the separation of church and state and the spiritual checks and balances religion provides to democracy. Intellectually grounded in nineteenth-century French politics, Tocqueville's insights continue to offer new perspectives on this relevant issue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780199681150
• ISBN-10: 0199681155
• Artikelnr.: 42789871

Autorenporträt

Alan S. Kahan received his PhD in History from The University of Chicago in 1987, and is currently Professor of British Civilization at the Université de Versailles/St. Quentin. He is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville (1992); Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: the Political Culture of Limited Suffrage (2003); Alexis de Tocqueville (2010); and Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Theory
1: Tocqueville the Moralist
2: Enlightened and Romantic Roots of Tocqueville's Moral Science
3: Democratic Grandeur
4: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Religion and Freedom in Democratic Societies
5: Alternative Spiritualities/Alternatives to Spirituality
Part II: Applications
6: Religion in America
7: Religion in France
8: Religion Elsewhere
9: Tocqueville Today
Appendix: Methodology