RELIGION, WOMANHOOD, AND DEMOCRATIC CONDITIONS IN TOCQUEVILLE

dc.coverageDOI: 10.3138/ttr.44.2.169
dc.creatorWilford, Sarah J.
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned05-01-2026 18:06
dc.date.available05-01-2026 18:06
dc.description<p>Alexis de Tocqueville is famous as a theorist of associations, but our current account of associationalism overlooks the relationship betweenreligion and womanhood in Tocqueville’s thought. Previously, these themes have been studied in isolation, and the interplay of religion, womanhood, and democratic conditions has been neglected. Offering a new perspective, this article finds commonalities between religion and womanhood in Tocqueville that elucidate both themes and our account of democratic associations more broadly. These major commonalities are the commonality of right conditions, the commonality of “the true notion of democratic progress,” and the commonality of moral cultivation. These commonalities organize our understanding of the links between religion and womanhood, while also illuminating the structure of two moderating forces that are considered “unique” and “special” in Tocqueville. Thus, this analysis offers a general logic behind Tocqueville’s most important tools for combattingdemocracy’s “defects,” a logic that will serve contemporary democracies.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/b19eff78-6273-49c4-9c74-0eeb10e07c60
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.44 (2023) nr.2 p.169-199
dc.titleRELIGION, WOMANHOOD, AND DEMOCRATIC CONDITIONS IN TOCQUEVILLEeng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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