Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion

by Alan S. Kahan · 2015

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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

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philosophyphilosophyMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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ChristianChristianMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 256 pages

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