Democratic citizens cannot determine in advance of actual public deliberation the reasons upon which their political decisions ought to be…
Religious citizens & public reasons
citizenship
Inclusion and accountability in the public sphere
In his essay “Religion in the Public Sphere,” Habermas joins the debate between liberals and critics of liberalism on the…
Constitutional patriotism
Robert Bellah’s latest post poses clearly the issues that we’ve been agonizing over in Canada, and in a different way…
The fragility of global solidarity
In my last post, I suggested that the religious communities of the world may have something to contribute to the…
Is critique secular?
A consequence of hinging our conversation on belief is that it tends to project “belief” in the abstract onto some…
After Durkheim
I continue, as I reread it, to have the highest opinion of A Secular Age and to believe that it…