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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Selby, David. "Religious apology as democratic theory, or 'ask not what religion can do for democracy': the case of Tocqueville’s use of Pascal’s psychology in Democracy in America" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362855_index.html>

Selby, D. A. "Religious apology as democratic theory, or 'ask not what religion can do for democracy': the case of Tocqueville’s use of Pascal’s psychology in Democracy in America" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL <Not Available>. 2010-03-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362855_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: The dominant approach to the relationship of religion and politics in democratic theory has traditionally focused on the necessary role of religious belief in the support of democratic institutions. I argue that Tocqueville’s modification of Pascal’s psychology in Democracy in America reverses this equation (without loosing sight of it entirely) and acts as a secularized version of the religious apology found in the Pensées. Tocqueville’s democratic apology is intended to create a kind of political conversion of French monarchists, and to provoke them to act with Tocqueville in his project of creating democratic institutions for France. The value of this approach opens up new approaches for thinking about the relationship between religion and politics in democratic theory. Indeed, it shows that democratic political life has an equally important effect on religion and that without political liberty the very vitality that enables religious life to act as a support for democratic institutions is threatened, possibly leading to the loss of religious belief altogether.

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