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Cambridge University Press Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville

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Does the toleration of liberal democratic society mean that religious faiths are left substantively intact, so long as they respect the rights of others? Or do liberal principles presuppose a deeper transformation of religion? Does life in democratic society itself transform religion? In Making Religion Safe for Democracy, J. Judd Owen explores these questions by tracing a neglected strand of Enlightenment political thought that presents a surprisingly unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Thomas Jefferson. Owen then turns to Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of the effects of democracy on religion in the early United States. Tocqueville finds a religion transformed by democracy in a way that bears a striking resemblance to what the Enlightenment thinkers sought, while offering a fundamentally different interpretation of what is at stake in that transformation. Making Religion Safe for Democracy offers a novel framework for understanding the ambiguous status of religion in modern democratic society. Review 'A study of religion in the advance of liberal political theory culminating in Tocqueville, who changes its place profoundly. J. Judd Owen's book is distinguished for clarity and eloquence of its own, and because it discerns and borrows from Tocqueville's wisdom.' Harvey Mansfield, Harvard Unviersity, Massachusetts and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution'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 Book Description This book examines a unified reinterpretation of Christianity by Hobbes, Locke, and Jefferson, and compares that to de Tocqueville's analysis of changes. About the Author J. Judd Owen is Associate Professor of Political Science, an associated faculty member in the Department of Religion, and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, Atlanta. He has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities and with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism (2001) and the coeditor of Religion, Enlightenment, and the New World Order (2010). His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Perspectives on Politics.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1107036798
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Historical > Britain > Military
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2014
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