This “religion in the public sphere” thread has featured debates about whether citizens of liberal democratic societies can offer religious…
An empirical perspective on religious and secular reasons
Jürgen Habermas
Waiting for Godot, who is either late or not coming at all
I wondered how long it would take DPDF participants to undo what I thought I had carefully assembled in my opening post on…
Secularism, secularization, and why the difference matters
Several decades ago, well before there had been any concerted effort among historians and sociologists of religion to trash the…
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
Recent events in Europe, from the cartoon crisis in Denmark to the controversy over the construction of minarets in Switzerland,…
New Habermas dialogues on religion and secularism
An op-ed by Stanley Fish in Monday's New York Times discusses a new publication comprising the proceedings from a course…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, due out spring 2011 from Columbia University Press and the SSRC,…
A postsecular world society?: An interview with Jürgen Habermas
"We should not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The debate over the sociological thesis of secularization has led…
Rethinking secularism: The power of religion in the public sphere
On October 22, 2009, over 1000 people gathered in the vast and venerable Great Hall at New York City's Cooper…
Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor in conversation
In a symposium convened by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the Humanities…
Open thread: The power of religion in the public sphere
Four of the world’s leading public intellectuals came together yesterday in the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union to discuss…