Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 August 2015
- ISBN 9780199681150
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 240x162x20 mm
- Weight 536 g
- Language English 0
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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.
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The relationship between democracy and religion is as important today as it was in Alexis de Tocqueville's time. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion is a ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy writing about one of today's most crucial problems. Alan S. Kahan, one of today's foremost Tocqueville scholars, 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.
Tocqueville thought that the role of religion was to provide checks and balances for democracy in the spiritual realm, just as secular forces should provide them in the political realm. He believed that in the long run secular checks and balances were dependent on the success of spiritual ones. Kahan examines how Tocqueville thought religion had succeeded in checking and balancing democracy in America, and failed in France, as well as observing Tocqueville's less well-known analyses of religion in Ireland and England, and his perspective on Islam and Hinduism. He shows how Tocqueville's 'post-secular' account of religion can help us come to terms with religion today.
More than a study of Tocqueville on religion in democratic society, this volume offers us a re-interpretation of Tocqueville as a moralist and a student of human nature in democratic society; a thinker whose new political science was in the service of a new moral science aimed at encouraging democratic people to attain greatness as human beings. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion gives us a new Tocqueville for the twenty-first century.
[a] thought-provoking examination of Tocqueville and religion ... Kahan provides and intriguing account of Tocqueville's comparative religious studies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Theory
Tocqueville the Moralist
Enlightened and Romantic Roots of Tocqueville's Moral Science
Democratic Grandeur
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Religion and Freedom in Democratic Societies
Alternative Spiritualities/Alternatives to Spirituality
Part II: Applications
Religion in America
Religion in France
Religion Elsewhere
Tocqueville Today
Appendix: Methodology
Going Deeper with New Testament Greek: An Intermediate Study of the Grammar and Syntax of the New Testament
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