Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville

ISBN-13: 9781316609316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 182 str.

J. Judd Owen

Opis

This book examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson, and compares that to de Tocqueville's analysis of changes.

Recenzje

'Does democracy depend on religion that is reticent and theologically thin? Or does this kind of stripped-down faith lead to a spiritually impoverished society that fails to satisfy the deepest human aspirations? Making Religion Safe for Democracy pursues these timely questions through a searching examination of seminal figures including Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson and Tocqueville. At a time when the relation between democracy and religion is fiercely debated, Owen's work enriches the national reflection.' Steven D. Smith, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, Co-Executive Director (Institute for Law and Religion) and Co-Executive Director (Institute for Law and Philosophy), University of San Diego School of Law

Spis treści

1. A third way of religious freedom?: Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Backus, and the struggle for the American soul; 2. Hobbes and the roots of religious indifference; 3. Locke and the political theology of toleration; 4. Tocqueville and the democratization of American religion.