Happy 209th Birthday, Alexis de Tocqueville!

from Information - mini-biography posted at Religion and Ethics Newsweekly dot-org: It’s the birthday (July 29, 1805 in Paris) of French social philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville who in the 1830s wrote Democracy in America including his observations on the “habits of the heart” or mores of the American people. The phrase became the title of sociologist of religion Robert Bellah’s important 1985 book Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life._____ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/