期刊名称：Illumine: Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Graduate Students Association
印刷版ISSN：1712-5634
出版年度：2010
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：3-20
语种：English
出版社：University of Victoria
摘要：Since 2001, Jürgen Habermas has turned increasingly toward questions on the role of religion in the public sphere. Modifying his earlier position, Habermas now argues for the equal inclusion of religious voices in the political public sphere and urges for the recognition among secular citizens that we are living in a “post-secular” world that must become adjusted to the continued existence of religious communities. Such a process requires that secular citizens undergo a “cognitive dissonance” when confronting religious claims and attempt a “translation program” to discover the profane truth content contained within. While there is much to commend this position, I argue that Habermas’s model is unnecessarily constrained by his narrow understanding of “religion” as a normative category, and that he privileges a Euro-hegemonic conception of “world religions” while circumscribing the parameters for how discourse on religion—both in philosophy and in the public sphere—ought to proceed.
