Delahunty blogging on Tocqueville's faith

Over at the Center for Law and Religion Forum, Prof. Robert Delahunty has started (what I gather is going to be) a series of posts -- "short essays dealing with the great French nineteenth century thinker Alexis de Tocqueville" -- and here is the first.  Among other things, Delahunty reminds us that "however valuable Tocqueville remains as a student of culture and society [RG:  very valuable, in my view], his thinking pivots on religion and its varied relationships to political regimes." 

And, while I'm at it, here's another in the series ("Tocqueville on Religion and the Limits of the Political Imagination"), in which Delahunty considers the "unsettling paradox" that Tocqueville "seems to be saying both that Christianity informs, shapes, limits and constrains the political beliefs of the Americans, and that the Americans' political beliefs inform, shape, limit and constrain their Christianity."