...Alexis de Tocqueville had a similar response, noting that "there is not a country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America" ([1835-39] 195^ 314). At mid-century, the Swiss theologian Philip Schaff (1855, 91) observed that attendance...

...God. CHAPTER 2 RELIGIOUS FAITH ANCHORED BY SECULAR INSTITUTIONS There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men. To his great surprise, Tocqueville finds that the Americans, the most freedom-loving and materialistic...

...religious community and say that religion is very important in their lives. As de Tocqueville said in 1830, "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." One hundred and thirty years later, the Supreme Court in Zorach v. Clauson said, somewhat more ecumenically:...

...of America the sovereign authority is religious." He also concluded 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." Supreme Court justice Joseph Story stated in his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States...

...accessory motive. at the bottom of all that the Americans do." And. "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." For this conjunction. Tocqueville thought he had an explanation: "The character of Anglo- American...

...religious," he asserted m Democracy m America, adding that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." Tocqueville now argued that sectarian tolerance and diversity was not the residue of apathy. They were...

...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.41" America is still the place...

...but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence 2 76 over the souls of men than in America; and there can...conformity to human nature, than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. I have remarked that the American...

...otherwise, Tocqueville could almost 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 CHAPTER 1 Notes 1. See, for example, The Journal of Rev. Michael Schlatter, in Henry Harbaugh,...

...Alexis de Tocqueville2 had a similar response, noting that "there is not a country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." At midcentury, the Swiss theologian Philip SchafP observed that attendance at Lutheran churches was...