...slowly. Many nonmcmbers attended church. In the 1830s French observer Alexis de Tocqueville noted, 'There is no country in the whole world in which the...a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."24 The Second Awakening differed from the First. Preachers still considered conversion a "birth...

...the United States in 1831 and 1832, the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville observed that he could find "no country in the whole world in which the Christian...influence over the souls of men than in America." 6 Indeed, this wave of religious enthusiasm contributed to an amazing increase in America's church...

...In the United States the sovereign authority is religious,. ..there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...souls of men than in America, and there can be no Alexis de. TocqueiriUe greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that...

...States of America the sovereign authority is religious." He also notes that "there is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater...influence over the souls of men than in America." 1851. In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story...

...Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same. . . . There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. The United States has no state religion. Yet American life is filled with religious symbols. More than...

...indicate the continued validity of Tocqueville's statement: "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.'"11 In so doing, the United States contradicts a statistically based generalization "that...

...and astute observer of early American culture, wrote in 1835. "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men." This influence has only intensified with the passage of time. Observers like Gray, however, recognize...

...conviction. In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the whole world...America; and there can be no greater proof of its unity, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over...

...religion estimated at $57 billion a year in the mid-1990s. 'There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America,' wrote de Tocqueville in 1835 (1965: 233), but his comment might equally apply to the contemporary republic....

...thinking of their business.6s Tocqueville, who stated that 'there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America', identified a similar disposition at the same time as he defended Catholicism - 'erroneously regarded...