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Making Religion Safe for Democracy: Transformation from Hobbes to Tocqueville J. JUDD OWEN Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015; 164 pp.; $104.95 (hardback)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2016

MATTHEW TAYLOR
MATTHEW TAYLOR*
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , September 2018 , pp. 673 - 674
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 2016 

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1 Because I think that the organization of the book is problematic, I do not attempt to mirror that organization in this review.

2 Though this claim does not fit well with the views of Backus or Tocqueville, both of whom supported the separation of church and state on the grounds that the latter corrupted the former.

3 Owen comments that Tocqueville may be taken to support the claim that “almost any religion, even a false one, is preferable to no religion” (140).