Keywords
democracy
religion
politics
freedom
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Abstract
In the Alexis Tocqueville's research to support the values of freedom in the middle of the democratic society marked for the equality of conditions and the passions that stem from it, religion has a preponderant place. This article aims to show how Tocqueville discusses the coherence between religion and freedom. Secondly, this essay studies direct and indirect influences of religion in Tocqueville's North America, all this to argue how religion, in so far as it responds to the democratic requirements, becomes one of the main democratic political institutions, for religion helps to govern freedom and has an energetic value moralizing and encouraging societies in searchof human person greatness as well.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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