RELIGION Y POLITICA EN EL PENSAMIENTO DE TOCQUEVILLE

In: Revista de estudios políticos, Band 110, S. 143-154

Abstract

Religious concern is f'ly found in the works of Tocqueville, who saw in religion an essential basis for new societies & felt that a society threatened by disbelief could not prosper. In the midst of a world which leans toward disbelief, the only possible voice favoring religion seems to be the one followed in the US. Religion can exercise indirect power over politics by emphasizing tradition & maintaining respect for order. For Tocqueville therefore, religion is not only 'a particular kind of hope'; it is more than mere sentiment. Tr from IPSA by J. A.Broussard.