[PDF.62oa] Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

[PDF.nm89] Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

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 | #517748 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2009-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.80 x5.40l,.85 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Coherent questions and answers on a puzzling topic|By Cultural ghost|Obviously Christianity has something to do with America, but what about its democracy? Today most commentary about this topic is either polemical or vapid. This book instead asks what did/does religion contribute to America's successful democracy. Non-Americans will appreciate the clarity of this book's pre| |In this compelling volume, Hugh Heclo is exceedingly precise on what he takes Christianity and democracy to mean; on what Alexis de Tocqueville thought about the two; and on why he feels the successful American confluence of Christianity and democracy has been

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other.
Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democ...

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