Divine order and secular social science in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America can be read as an extended anthropological comparison of hierarchical and egalitarian societies (‘aristocracies’ and ‘democracies,’ in his terms). In its use of comparative method, it is strikingly modern, almost post-modern: secular social science. And y...

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Main Author: Handler, Richard 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2021
In: Religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 566-576
Further subjects:B secular social science
B democracy in America
B Alexis de Tocqueville
B Comparison
B Divine Knowledge
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