Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville

Owen, J. Judd

Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville - USA: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - xvi, 164p.

"A study of religion in the advance of liberal political theory culminating in Tocqueville. who changes its place profoundly. J Judd Owen's book is distinguished for clarity and eloquence of its own, and because it discerns and borrows from Tocqueville's wisdom."

978-1-107-03679-6


A third way of religious freedom? Thomas Jefferson, Issac Backus, and the struggle for the American soul
Hobbes and the new minimalist Christianity
Locke and the political theology of toleration
Tocqueville on the democratization of American religion

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