Culture, Secularization, and Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Lessons from Alexis de Tocqueville
Redaktion: Bijsterveld, Sophie Van; Ten Napel, Hans-Martien

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Following the approach developed by Alexis de Tocqueville, this volume views democracy as a cultural phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040107676
• Artikelnr.: 72284832

Autorenporträt

Sophie van Bijsterveld is Professor of Religion, Law, and Society at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Hans-Martien ten Napel is Associate Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A New Political Science Sophie van Bijsterveld and Hans-Martien ten Napel 2. Secular Democracy and the Public Significance of Religion Sophie van Bijsterveld 3. Family Tensions in Tocqueville and Lasch: Two Perspectives on the Domestic Sphere and Democratic Life Sarah J. Wilford 4. Associational Life and Liberty: A Critical Assessment of Tocqueville's Democracy in America David Thunder 5. Conservatism, Enlightened Self Interest, and a Threatened Civilizational Order John D. Wilsey 6. Building a Democratic Identity: Self-Interest and Moral Imagination Stacey Hibbs 7. Why a Secularized and Pluralistic Democracy Needs Faith Jonathan Chaplin 8. Freedom and Human Rights Trey Dimsdale 9. Truth, Unity, and Pluralism Hans-Martien ten Napel 10. Tocqueville's Legal Spirit as a Force of Hope for Presentist Democracy Carinne Elion-Valter