It is clear from the ongoing discussion about "Religion in the public sphere" that we live in an age when…
Nothing special about religion
Religion in the public sphere
Scholars reassess a longstanding debate regarding the expression and interdiction of religion in the public sphere.
Translation and transformation
In my last post, I closed with two questions relating to Jurgen Habermas's recent work on religion and the public sphere:…
An empirical perspective on religious and secular reasons
This “religion in the public sphere” thread has featured debates about whether citizens of liberal democratic societies can offer religious…
Religion as a catalyst of rationalization
The centrality of religion to social theory in general and philosophy in particular explains why Jürgen Habermas has dealt with…
Religion’s many powers
To say that religion has power in the public sphere is not to say that it can be easily absorbed…
Fighting words that are not fought
“Under what conditions does freedom of speech become freedom to hate?” Judith Butler recently asked. Here I will explore these…