Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Tocqueville Thesis / Michael Zuckert
Part I. Tocqueville’s Thesis
1. Tocqueville’s American Thesis and the New Science of Politics / Aristide Tessitore
Part II. Tocqueville’s Contexts
2. Tocqueville, Religion, and “Democracy in America”: Some Essential Questions / James T. Schleifer
3. Tocqueville’s “America,” Beaumont’s “Slavery,” and the United States in 1831–32 / Mark A. Noll
4. Tocqueville, Pascal, and the Transcendent Horizon / Alexander Jech
5. On Individualism, Authority, and Democracy as a New Form of Religion: A Few Tocquevillian Reflections / Aurelian Craiutu & Matthew N. Holbreich
Part III. The Tocqueville Thesis: Theoretical Perspectives
6. Tocqueville’s Pendulum: Thoughts on Religion, Liberty, and Reason in Democratic Times / Eduardo Nolla
7. Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Alexis de Tocqueville on Religion in Democratic Societies / Alan S. Kahan
8. Tocqueville on Religion and Liberty / Harvey C. Mansfield
9. Religion, Civic Education, and Conformity / Dana Villa
Part IV. The Tocqueville Thesis in the Twenty-First Century
10. The Saving Minimum? Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in America—Then and Now / Catherine Zuckert
Index