 States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America...  Democracy in America - Side 239av Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | J. Stephen Lang - 2003 - 292 sider
...Billy Sunday b. Jimmy Swaggart c. Aimee Semple McPherson 15. There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. a. Charles de Gaulle b. Margaret Thatcher c. Alexis de Tocqueville 1 6. Whatever you love besides God,... | |
 | Seymour Martin Lipset - 1967 - 420 sider
...his visit to America in 1830, Tocqueville commented: ". . . there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."5 Martineau in 1834, Trollope in 1860, Bryce in 1883, and 2 Ibid., pp. 344-345. 3 Will Herberg,... | |
 | Patricia U. Bonomi - 2003 - 328 sider
...otherwise, Tocqueville could ahnost certainly not have declared that "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."6 Notes CIIAPTEH 1 1. See, for example. The Journal of Rec. Michael Schlatter. in Henry Harbaugh.... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 sider
...Christianity is part of the law of the land." More specifically, de Tocqueville, in the 1800s, wrote, "there is no country in the whole world in which the...greater influence over the souls of men than in America. By regulating domestic life it regulates the state. Religion is the foremost of the institutions of... | |
 | Gregory J. Rummo - 2004 - 539 sider
...greatest political thinkers of all time, a 19th-century Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote, “There is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greaten influence oven the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greaten proof of its utility,... | |
 | William J. Federer - 2005 - 292 sider
...United States the sovereign authority is religious.... There is no country in the whole world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. 7" America is still the place... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - 2005 - 860 sider
...the nation most striking to him was the role of religion. He wrote that he knew of "no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater...influence over the souls of men than in America." Analyzing the way that religion seemed to reinforce American attitudes toward democracy and liberty,... | |
 | Thomas L. Krannawitter, Daniel C. Palm - 2005 - 270 sider
...Writing in the early 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." Yet, he continued, [t]he [religious] sects that exist in the United States are innumerable. They all... | |
 | Robert Michael - 2005 - 262 sider
...get them to conceive of the one without the other" and that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."24 Two Supreme Court cases, Vidal v. Girard's Executors in the 1840s and Holy Trinity Church... | |
 | Sara S. McLanahan, Elisabeth Donahue, Ron Haskins - 2008 - 177 sider
...related to greater religious participation. Tocqueville observed, "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."49 That statement is still true with respect to the developed nations today: religious vitality... | |
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