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Religion and revolution: on James Kloppenberg's Toward Democracy

Toward democracy: the struggle for self-rule in European and American thought, by James Kloppenberg, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016,912 pp., £25.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780195054613

 

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Mordechai Levy-Eichel for the invitation and comments to the paper, Steven Smith for the introduction, and to the participants James Kloppenberg, Joshua Simon and Marcela Echeverri for the discussion. Further thanks to Richard Bourke, Duncan Kelly and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins for comments on the draft.

Notes

1 Andrew Sabl is responsible for this great line.

2 Bok, “To The Mountaintop Again.”

3 Skinner, “Meaning and Understanding.”

4 Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution.

5 Gauchet, The Disenchantment of the World.

6 On how Judeo-Christianity changed from being an inclusive to an exclusive category, see Zubovich, “The Strange, Short Career of Judeo-Christianity.”

7 Lilla, The Shipwrecked Mind.

8 We can note that France has a much weaker tradition of Christian Democracy than, say, Germany, although what might be termed ‘left-wing Catholics’ have played a role in Macron's presidency.

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