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Tocqueville's civil religion : American Christianity and the prospects for freedom / Sanford Kessler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in religion, culture, and societyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)1994.Description: xiv, 238 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0791419290
  • 0791419304
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR525.T637 1994
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Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Tocqueville's approach to religion Chapter 3: Tocqueville's Christianity Chapter 4: Tocqueville's religious statesmanship Chapter 5: America's religious horizon Chapter 6: Christianity and America's political health Chapter 7: The secularization of American morals Chapter 8: future prospects Chapter 9: A summing up.
Summary: Sanford Kessler offers a provocative and timely analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's views on the relationship between Christianity and American democracy. These views are central to Tocqueville's discussions of the moral requirements of freedom and the tasks of democratic statesmanship.Summary: Tocqueville's thinking about American religion is highly relevant to contemporary debates regarding America's origins, the current strength of American Christianity, and the proper role of religion in American public life. Kessler skillfully demonstrates how Tocqueville incorporates his ideas into an analysis of the American character, a factor in American politics that he considered more important than the Constitution.Summary: This book will challenge the thinking of all Americans concerned with religious-political issues and with prospects for freedom.
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Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Tocqueville's approach to religion Chapter 3: Tocqueville's Christianity Chapter 4: Tocqueville's religious statesmanship Chapter 5: America's religious horizon Chapter 6: Christianity and America's political health Chapter 7: The secularization of American morals Chapter 8: future prospects Chapter 9: A summing up.

Sanford Kessler offers a provocative and timely analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's views on the relationship between Christianity and American democracy. These views are central to Tocqueville's discussions of the moral requirements of freedom and the tasks of democratic statesmanship.

Tocqueville's thinking about American religion is highly relevant to contemporary debates regarding America's origins, the current strength of American Christianity, and the proper role of religion in American public life. Kessler skillfully demonstrates how Tocqueville incorporates his ideas into an analysis of the American character, a factor in American politics that he considered more important than the Constitution.

This book will challenge the thinking of all Americans concerned with religious-political issues and with prospects for freedom.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

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