Tocqueville Symposium: Libertys Secrets: Counterna...

Libertys Secrets: Counternarratives of Democratic Religion, examined tensions between Toquevilles desire to depict American religion as a force for political stability and countervailing religious developments during the 1830s, particularly African-American civil piety and the emergence of Mormonism, with its distinctive combination of hierarchy and individual agency. Presented by Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Associate Professor of American & Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel ...