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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Archive for December, 2006
Discussion of Habermas’ Religion in the public sphere
Thursday, December 7th, 2006“As long as secular citizens are convinced that religious traditions and religious communities are to a certain extent archaic relics of pre-modern societies that continue to exist in the present, they will understand freedom of religion as the cultural version of the conservation of a species in danger of becoming extinct.” (15)
I have just read Religion in the public sphere by Jürgen Habermas. In this article Habermas discusses several views on the use of religious arguments in the public sphere. It is an interesting, but contested article. Read the rest of this entry »