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Arroyo, Alberto.

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Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Religion in Tocqueville's social thought./
Author:	Arroyo, Alberto.
Description:	179 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 1104.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-04A.
Subject:	Sociology, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9425883

Religion in Tocqueville's social thought.
Arroyo, Alberto.

Religion in Tocqueville's social thought. - 179 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 1104.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Akron, 1994.

This dissertation constitutes the first comprehensive effort to gauge the role of religion in Tocqueville's social theory from a sociological perspective. The study examines the hypothesis that, for Tocqueville, religion is both a causal and a harmonizing agent in the emergence of modern Western liberal democratic societies. Restated, religion is a necessary social institution for the attainment of a liberal democratic order. The social role of the religious institution is analyzed in terms of its effects on specific cultural areas, institutional orders, and national polities.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017541
Sociology, General.

Religion in Tocqueville's social thought.
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520 $a This dissertation constitutes the first comprehensive effort to gauge the role of religion in Tocqueville's social theory from a sociological perspective. The study examines the hypothesis that, for Tocqueville, religion is both a causal and a harmonizing agent in the emergence of modern Western liberal democratic societies. Restated, religion is a necessary social institution for the attainment of a liberal democratic order. The social role of the religious institution is analyzed in terms of its effects on specific cultural areas, institutional orders, and national polities.
520 $a The study reconstructs Tocqueville's social theory and method in order to elucidate the sociological quality of his thought. It is concluded that Tocqueville's methodological and theoretical approach is characterized by both an empirically grounded historical and comparative method, and a theory of freedom based on structural and cultural determinants. A chronological account of Tocqueville's religious development in its social and historical context shows how a number of basic beliefs, rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, informed the moral and cosmological perspectives of his social analyses.
520 $a An examinination of Tocqueville's view of the effects of religion on culture identifies religion as the main determinant of cultural values and beliefs, which, in turn, provide the normative and cognitive frameworks indispensable for a free democratic society. Not all religions, though, are equally conducive to these beneficent social effects. The differential results of Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism are considered. A detailed examination of religion's effect on the family, the economy, education, and politics concludes that, given the proper institutional relationships, religion can contribute to the harmonious interaction between the civil and political orders required for a successful liberal democracy. Finally, an analysis of Tocqueville's discussions of the cases of the United States, France, England, and Ireland concludes that religion's contribution to the attainment and preservation of a liberal polity varies according to the nature of church and state relationships obtaining in a particular nation state. Adequate separation of the religious and political orders will facilitate the beneficial influence of religion in the attainment of a free democratic society. The study's implications for developing liberal democratic polities in postcommunist Eastern Europe are considered.
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