{"id":1797,"date":"2019-04-02T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?page_id=1797"},"modified":"2025-06-03T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:20:36","slug":"alexis-de-tocqueville-philosophy-of-religion-and-the-role-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/alexis-de-tocqueville-philosophy-of-religion-and-the-role-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexis de Tocqueville: Philosophy of Religion and the Role of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/alexis-de-tocqueville-a-comprehensive-bibliography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Back to the Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>Philosophy of Religion and the Role of Religion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.\u00a0<\/em><i>Thus it is, that by respecting all democratic tendencies not absolutely contrary to herself, and by making use of several of them for her own purposes,\u00a0<\/i><i>Religion sustains an advantageous struggle with that spirit of individual independence which is her most dangerous antagonist.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexis de Tocqueville,\u00a0Democracy in America, Part the Second, The Social Influence of Democracy\u00a028 (Henry Reeve ed., J. &amp; H. G. Langley Publishers 1840)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allen, Barbara,\u00a0<u>Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution: Harmonizing Earth With Heaven<\/u>\u00a0(Rowman and Littlefield: 2005).<\/p>\n<p>Allen, Barbara,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville&#8217;s Analysis of Belief in a Transcendent Order, Enlightened Interest, and Democracy,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>8(3) Journal of Theoretical Pollitics 383-414 (1998).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antoine, Agn\u00e8s,\u00a0<u>L&#8217;impens\u00e9 de la d\u00e9mocratie: Tocqueville, la citoyennet\u00e9 et la religion<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: Fayard, 2003).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Antoine, Agn\u00e8s,\u00a0<em>Politique et religion chez Tocqueville<\/em>, 18\u00a0<u>The Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a037-45 (1997).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arroyo, Alberto,\u00a0<u>Religion in Tocqueville&#8217;s social thought<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, University of Akron, 1994).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bailey, Michael E., and Kristin Lindholm,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville and the Rhetoric of Civil Religion in the Presidential Inaugural Addresses,<\/em>\u00a032(3)\u00a0<u>Christian Scholar\u2019s review<\/u>\u00a0259-279 (Spring 2003).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Balitzer, Alfred,\u00a0<u>Politics and the &#8220;Arts of Peace&#8221;: A Study of Religion in the Political Order Drawn From the Works of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 1972).<\/p>\n<p>Baron, Stephen,\u00a0<em>Morality &amp; Politics in Modern Life: Tocqueville &amp; Solzhenitsyn on the Importance of Religion to Liberty<\/em>, 14(3)\u00a0<u>Polity<\/u>\u00a0395-413 (1982).<\/p>\n<p>Battista, Anna Maria,\u00a0<u>Lo spirito liberale e lo spirito religioso: Tocqueville nel dibattito sulla scuola<\/u>\u00a0(Milano: Jaca Book, 1976).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<u>Alexis de Tocqueville sobre las religiones, Cristianismo, hinduismo, e islam<\/u>\u00a0(Madrid, Ediciones Encuentro, 2013)(Coleccion Ensayo).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/benoit_jean_louis\/foi_religion_tocqueville\/foi_religion_tocqueville\/foi_religion_tocqueville.html\">Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<em>Foi, Providence et religion chez Tocqueville<\/em>, 18\u00a0<u>Cahiers de philosophie politique et juridique de l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Caen<\/u>\u00a0117-134 (May 1990).<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<em>Lorsque Tocqueville \u00e9crit B son \u00e9vLque: Consid\u00e9rations tocquevilliennes sur les liens de l\u2019\u00e9glise et de\u00a0<\/em>l\u2019\u00e9tat,\u00a0<u>Revue de la Manche<\/u>\u00a019-31 (April 2002).<\/p>\n<p>Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<em>Pr<\/em><em>\u00e9sentation et notes,<\/em>\u00a0<u>Alexis de Tocqueville: Notes sur le Coran et autres textes sur les religions<\/u>\u00a0(Paris: Bayard Centurion, 2007).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/benoit_jean_louis\/Societe_et_religion_scularisation\/Societe_et_religion.html\">\u201cSoci\u00e9t\u00e9 et religion: s\u00e9cularisation, la\u00efcit\u00e9 et politique.\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/benoit_jean_louis\/Societe_et_religion_scularisation\/Societe_et_religion.html\">&#8211;\u00a0<em>Les \u00e9lections am\u00e9ricaines, la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 musulmane et le d\u00e9clin du catholicisme europ\u00e9en \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re du texte tocquevillien -.<\/em>\u201d (2008)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<u>Tocqueville:\u00a0<\/u><a href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/benoit_jean_louis\/tocqueville_homme_et_religion\/tocqueville_homme_et_religion.pdf\">L&#8217;homme et la foi, le fait religieux et la soci\u00e9t\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beno\u00eet, Jean-Louis,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/benoit_jean_louis\/tocqueville_et_islam_entrevue\/jl_benoit_tocqueville_et_islam.mp3\">Tocqueville et l&#8217;Islam<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0Entrevue avec Abdelawhab Meddeb, Radio France, dimanche le 12 octobre 2008<\/p>\n<p>Bloostein, Marc J.,\u00a0<u>The role of dogmatic religion in politics: a critical examination of the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx<\/u>\u00a0(Bachelor&#8217;s thesis, Brandeis University, 1985).<\/p>\n<p>Buscemi, Mauro Antonio, Rosmini e Tocqueville. Le ragioni cristiane del liberalismo (Naples: Editoriale Scientifica, 2020) (Settore SPS\/02 &#8211; Storia Delle Dottrine Politiche).<\/p>\n<p>Caplow, Theodore,\u00a0<em>Constrasting trends in European and American religion<\/em>, 46(2)\u00a0<u>Sociological Analysis<\/u>\u00a0101-108 (1985).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caplow, Theodore,\u00a0<em>Response to Professor Wallis<\/em>, 47(1)\u00a0<u>Sociological Analysis<\/u>\u00a053 (1986). Reply to Roy Wallis,\u00a0<em>The Caplow-de Tocqueville Account of Contrasts in European and American Religion: Confounding Considerations<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/openaccess.leidenuniv.nl\/bitstream\/handle\/1887\/13435\/Cliteur%20A%20Secular%20Reading%20of%20Tocqueville%20%202007.pdf?sequence=4\">Cliteur, Paul,\u00a0<em>A Secular Reading of Alexis de Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<u>Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor<\/u>\u00a0112-132 (Raf Geenens and Annelien de Dijn eds.; Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2007).<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dalton, Lisle, Phillip E. Hammond, Julie Ingersoll, and David Machacek,\u00a0<em>Bringing Tocqueville in: remedying a neglect in the sociology of religion<\/em>, 31\u00a0<u>Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion<\/u>\u00a0395-407 (December 1992).<\/p>\n<p>Esteban Duque, Roberto,\u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">La religi\u00f3n en el espacio p\u00fablico: El pensamiento de Alexis de Tocqueville y J\u00fcrgen Habermas (Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 2018) (Astrolabio Religi\u00f3n).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Etkind, Aleksandr,\u00a0<em>Inaia svoboda: Pushkin, Tokvil&#8217; i demokratiia v Rossii<\/em>, 6\u00a0<u>Znamia: Literaturno-Khudozhestvennyi i\u00a0<\/u><u>Obshchestvenno-Politicheskii Zhurnal<\/u>\u00a0179-203 (June 1999).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jcpa.org\/JCPA\/Templates\/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=5&amp;DBID=1&amp;LNGID=1&amp;TMID=111&amp;FID=625&amp;PID=861&amp;IID=1038&amp;TTL=Hidden_in_Plain_Sight:_Alexis_de_Tocqueville%27s_Recognition_of_the_Jewish_Origin_of_the_Idea_of_Equality\">Fishman, Joel,\u00a0<em>Hidden in Plain Sight: Alexis de Tocqueville&#8217;s Recognition of the Jewish Origin of the Idea of Equality,<\/em>\u00a017 Jewish Political Studies Review 3\/4 (Fall 2005).<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Galston, William A.,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville on Liberalism and Religion<\/em>, 54(3)\u00a0<u>Social Research<\/u>\u00a0499-518 (1987).<\/p>\n<p>Gauchet, Marcel,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville; primitive religion and the origins of the state<\/em>, in\u00a0<u>New French Thought: Political Philosophy<\/u>\u00a0(Mark Lilla ed.; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994)(New French Thought).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goldstein, Doris Silk,\u00a0<u>Church and Society: A Study of the Religious Outlook of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Bryn Mawr College, 1955).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goldstein, Doris Silk,\u00a0<em>The Religious Beliefs of Alexis de Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a01\u00a0<u>French Historical Studies<\/u>\u00a0379-393 (Fall 1960).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goldstein, Doris Silk,\u00a0<u>Trial of faith: religion and politics in Tocqueville&#8217;s thought<\/u>\u00a0(NY: Elsevier, 1975).<\/p>\n<p>Graebner, Norman,\u00a0<em>Christianity and Democracy: Tocqueville&#8217;s Views of Religion in America,<\/em>\u00a065(3)\u00a0<u>The Journal of Religion<\/u>\u00a0263-273 (July 1976).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hansen, Klaus,\u00a0<em>The Changing Fortunes of Tocqueville&#8217;s\u00a0<u>Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>, 89\u00a0<u>Queen&#8217;s Quarterly<\/u>\u00a0233-237 (Spring 1982).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hashemi, Nader,\u00a0<em>Islam, Democracy and Alexis de Tocqueville,<\/em>\u00a0110(1)\u00a0<u>Queen\u2019s Quarterly<\/u>\u00a021-29 (Spring 2003).<\/p>\n<p>Herold, Aaron L., The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment Theology<span aria-hidden=\"true\"> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hidalgo, Oliver,<em>\u00a0Religion,\u00a0<\/em><em>Virtue and the Ennobling of Democracy: Tocqueville&#8217;s Vision of Civic Society,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<u>Tocquevillian Ideas: \u00a0Contemporary European Perspectives<\/u>\u00a099-110 (Zbigniew Rau and Marek Tracz-Tryniecki eds.; Lanham: University Press of America, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Hildago, Oliver,\u00a0<u>Unbehagliche Moderne : Tocqueville und die Frage der Religion in der\u00a0 Politik<\/u>\u00a0(Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2006).<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley, Cynthia J.,\u00a0<u>The Role of Religion in the Social and Political Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1986).<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley, Cynthia J.,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville on Religion and Modernity: Making Catholicism Safe for Liberal Democracy<\/em>, 32\u00a0<u>Journal of Church and State<\/u>\u00a0325-341 (Spring 1990).<\/p>\n<p>Hinckley, Cynthia J.,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville on Religious Truth &amp; Political Necessity<\/em>, 23\u00a0<u>Polity<\/u>\u00a039 (Fall 1990).<\/p>\n<p>Holloway, Carson,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/civil-society\/report\/tocqueville-christianity-and-american-democracy\">Tocqueville on Christianity and American Democracy,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The Heritage Foundation, March 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston, William E. Jr.,\u00a0<em>Finding the common good amidst democracy&#8217;s strange melancholy: Tocqueville on religion and the American&#8217;s &#8220;disgust with life&#8221;<\/em>, 75\u00a0<u>Journal of Religion<\/u>\u00a044 (January 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, C.,\u00a0<em>Civil and uncivil religions: Tocqueville on Hinduism and Islam<\/em>, in\u00a0<u>Nation or Integration?: Perspectives on Europe in the 90&#8217;s<\/u>\u00a0845-850 (NY: Pergamon Press, 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Kelly, George Armstrong,\u00a0<em>Faith, Freedom and Disenchantment: Politics and the American Religious Consciousness<\/em>, 111(1)\u00a0<u>Daedalus<\/u>\u00a0127-148 (1982).<\/p>\n<p>Kessler, Sanford,\u00a0<u>Tocqueville&#8217;s civil religion: American Christianity and the prospects for freedom<\/u>\u00a0(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994)(SUNY Series in Religion, Culture, and Society).<\/p>\n<p>Kessler, Sanford,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville on Civil Religion and Liberal Democracy,<\/em>\u00a039(1)\u00a0<u>Journal of Politics<\/u>\u00a0119-146 (1977).<\/p>\n<p>Kessler, Sanford,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville&#8217;s Puritans: Christianity and the American Founding<\/em>, 54(3)\u00a0<u>Journal of Politics<\/u>\u00a0776-792 (1992).<\/p>\n<p>Kissam, P. C.,\u00a0<em>Alexis de Tocqueville and American Constitutional Law: On Democracy, the Majority Will, Individual Rights, Federalism, Religion, Civic Associations, and Originalist Constitutional Theory,<\/em>\u00a059 Maine Law Review 35-74 (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Knee, Philip,\u00a0<em>Religion et souverain\u00e9t\u00e9 du peuple: de Rousseau \u00e0 Tocqueville<\/em>, 23\u00a0<u>Canadian Journal of Political Science<\/u>\u00a0211 (June 1990). &#8220;Religion and the supremacy of the people: from Rousseau to Tocqueville.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Koritansky, John C.,\u00a0<em>Civil Religion in Tocqueville&#8217;s\u00a0<u>Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>, 17(3)\u00a0<u>Interpretation<\/u>\u00a0389 (Spring 1990).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawler, Peter Augustine,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism,\u00a0<\/em>30(4)\u00a0<u>Perspectives on Political Science<\/u>\u00a0218 (Fall 2001).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawyer, John E. Jr.,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville on the Religious Foundations of Democracy,<\/em>\u00a042(4)\u00a0<u>American Benedictine Review<\/u>\u00a0418-435 (December 1991).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leroux, Georges,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/classiques.uqac.ca\/contemporains\/leroux_georges\/tocqueville_et_les_religions\/tocqueville_et_les_religions.pdf\">Tocqueville et les religions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lukacs, John, and Doris S. Goldstein,\u00a0<em>Comment on Tocqueville Article,\u00a0<\/em>2 French Historical Studies 123-126 (Spring 1961).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>This explains why religious nations have so often achieved such lasting results; for while they were thinking only of the other world,\u00a0they had found out the great secret of success in this.\u00a0Religions give men a general habit of conducting themselves with a view of futurity; in this respect they are not less useful to happiness in this life than to felicity hereafter; and this is one of their chief political characteristics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexis de Tocqueville,\u00a0Democracy in America, Part the Second, The Social Influence of Democracy\u00a0159 (Henry Reeve ed., J. &amp; H. G. Langley Publishers 1840)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mabee, Charles,\u00a0<em>Religion and Technology in America: A Generation after Tocqueville<\/em>, in\u00a0<u>Perspectives on American Business<\/u>\u00a039-44 (Don Harkness ed.; Tampa, FL: American Studies Press, 1982).<\/p>\n<p>Maguire, Matthew William,\u00a0<u>The Conversion of Enlightenment<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Harvard University, 1999).<\/p>\n<p>Mastrangelo, James Ellliot Fricker,\u00a0<u>City of Gods: The Rationalization of Spiritual Thought in America and the Erosion of the Foundation of Democrat Liberalism<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2009).<\/p>\n<p>Matsumoto, Reiji,\u00a0<u>Kokuviru kenkyu: kazoku, shukyo, kokka to demokurashi<\/u>\u00a0(Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1991). On Tocqueville and religion.<\/p>\n<p>McLendon, Michael,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville, Jansenism, and the Psychology of Freedom,\u00a0<\/em>50(3)\u00a0<u>American Journal of Political Science<\/u>\u00a0664 (July 2006).<\/p>\n<p>Melonio, Fran\u00e7oise,\u00a0<em>La Religion selon Tocqueville: Ordre moral ou esprit de libert\u00e9?<\/em>\u00a0360(1)\u00a0<u>\u00c9tudes<\/u>\u00a073-88 (January 1984).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merta, Tomasz,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville i religia<\/em>, 11 Spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwo Otwarte 30-32 (1997) Translation of article title:\u00a0<em>Tocqueville and Religion.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeanvoice.com\/article\/2010\/04\/president-of-poland-killed-in-crash\/67660.aspx\">Dr. Merta perished in the tragic air disaster of April 10, 2010, near Smolensk, Russia.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitchell, Harvey,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville\u2019s Flight From Doubt and His Search for Certainty: Skepticism in a Democratic Age,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<u>The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800: Skepticism in Philosophy, Science, and Society<\/u>\u00a0261-279 (J. van der Zande and Richard H. Popkin eds.; Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1998).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nef, John,\u00a0<em>La Verit\u00e9, la foi et la civilisation: Tocqueville et Gobineau<\/em>, 180\u00a0<u>La Table Ronde<\/u>\u00a017-39 (1963). Translated by Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Duparc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/novak\/novak100202.asp\">Novak, Michael,\u00a0<em>Democracy &amp; Religion in America: Tocqueville&#8217;s Surprising Linkage<\/em>,\u00a0<u>National Review Online<\/u>, October 2, 2002.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ossewaarde, Marinus R. R.,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville&#8217;s Christian Citizen<\/em>, 8(3)\u00a0<u>Logos<\/u>\u00a040-66 (2005).<\/p>\n<p>Owen, J. Judd, Making Religion Safe For Democracy: Transformation From Hobess To Tocqueville (Cambridge University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Pecora, Gaetano,\u00a0<em>Democrazia e religione nel pensiero di Tocqueville<\/em>,\u00a0<u>Mondoperaio<\/u>, June\/July 1991, at 89-101.<\/p>\n<p>Raico, Ralph,\u00a0<u>The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1971).<\/p>\n<p>Raico, Ralph, The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Raico, Ralph, The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011). Ebook edition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rickett, Tracy,\u00a0<u>The relationship between church and state: applying the ideas of Alexis de Tocqueville to modern day Supreme Court decisions<\/u>\u00a0(Master&#8217;s thesis, University of Virginia, 1984).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanders, Luk,\u00a0<em>The Strange Belief of Alexis de Tocqueville: Christianity as Philosophy,<\/em>\u00a074(11)\u00a0<u>International Journal of Philosophy and Theology<\/u>\u00a033-53 (2013).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schleifer, James T.,\u00a0<em>How Democracy Influences Preaching: A Previously Unpublished Fragment from Tocqueville&#8217;s\u00a0<u>Democracy in America<\/u><\/em>, 52\u00a0<u>Yale University Library Gazette<\/u>\u00a075-79 (1977).<\/p>\n<p>Schleifer, James T., <em>Tocqueville, Religion, and <u>Democracy in America<\/u>: Some Essential Questions, <\/em>3(2) American Political Thought 254-272 (Fall 2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schleifer, James T.,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville and Religion: Some New Perspectives,<\/em>\u00a0<u>The Tocqueville Review<\/u>\u00a0303-321 (Fall\/Winter 1982).<\/p>\n<p>Staib, Grahm,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.jsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&amp;context=compass\"><em>Jefferson and Tocqueville on Christian Nationalism,<\/em><\/a> 7 Compass 1 (2023).<\/p>\n<p>Stauffer, Dana Jalbert, <em>Tocqueville on the Modern Moral Situation: Democracy and the Decline of Devotion,<\/em> 108 American Political Science Review 772-782 (November 2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephens, John James,\u00a0<u>Religion and the church in the political philosophy of Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Master&#8217;s thesis, Washington University, 1951).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stevenson, William R. Jr.,\u00a0<em>The American Melting Pot as Reductionist Kettle: Religious Liberty&#8217;s Worrisome Condition,<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<u>Tocquevillian Ideas. Contemporary European Perspectives<\/u>\u00a0135-152 (Zbigniew Rau and Marek Tracz-Tryniecki eds.; Lanham: University Press of America, 2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tessitore, Aristide,\u00a0<em>Alexis de Tocqueville on the Natural State of Religion in the Age of Democracy,<\/em>\u00a064 The Journal of Politics 1137-1162 (November 2002).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tessitore, Aristide,\u00a0<em>Tocqueville and Gobineau on the Nature of Modern Politics,\u00a0<\/em>67(4)\u00a0<u>Review of Politics<\/u>\u00a0631-657 (Fall 2005).<\/p>\n<p>Thomson, William E.,\u00a0<u>Liberalism and the Limits of Justice: Tocqueville&#8217;s Reflections on Nobility and Spiritual Decline<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1996). Two volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Tishman, Primrose Pratt,\u00a0<u>The Role of Religion in Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s \u201cDemocracy in America\u201d<\/u>\u00a0(Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uhde, Ute,\u00a0<u>Politik und Religion: zum Verhaltnis von Demokratie und Christentum bei<\/u>\u00a0<u>Alexis de Tocqueville<\/u>\u00a0(Berlin: Duncker &amp; Humblot, 1978)(Beitr\u00e4ge zur politischen Wissenschaft; 29).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Van Heyningen, Kristin Diane, A Call To Disobey: Tocqueville, Religion, and Civil Disobedience (Dissertation, The University of Chicago, 2008).<\/p>\n<p>Venor, Scott,\u00a0<em>Natural Religion and Human Perfectibility,<\/em>\u00a033(1)\u00a0<u>Perspectives on Political Science<\/u>\u00a010-17 (Winter 2004).<\/p>\n<p>Zuckert, Catherine, <em>The Saving Minimum? 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