Habermas and religion
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Habermas and religion
Polity, 2013
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  Toyama
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
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  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
To the surprise of many readers, Jurgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagement with religion has been controversial and exciting, putting much of his own work in fresh perspective and engaging key themes in philosophy, politics and social theory.
Habermas argues that the once widely accepted hypothesis of progressive secularization fails to account for the multiple trajectories of modernization in the contemporary world. He calls attention to the contemporary significance of "postmetaphysical" thought and "postsecular" consciousness - even in Western societies that have embraced a rationalistic understanding of public reason.
Habermas and Religion presents a series of original and sustained engagements with Habermas's writing on religion in the public sphere, featuring new work and critical reflections from leading philosophers, social and political theorists, and anthropologists. Contributors to the volume respond both to Habermas's ambitious and well-developed philosophical project and to his most recent work on religion. The book closes with an extended response from Habermas - itself a major statement from one of today's most important thinkers.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations vii
Editors' Introduction 1
Part I Rationalization, Secularisms, and Modernities
1 Exploring the Postsecular: Three Meanings of "the Secular" and Their Possible Transcendence 27
Jose Casanova
2 The Anxiety of Contingency: Religion in a Secular Age 49
Maria Herrera Lima
3 Is the Postsecular a Return to Political Theology? 72
Maria Pia Lara
4 An Engagement with Jurgen Habermas on Postmetaphysical Philosophy, Religion, and Political Dialogue 92
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Part II The Critique of Reason and the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment
5 The Burdens of Modernized Faith and Postmetaphysical Reason in Habermas's "Unfinished Project of
Enlightenment" 115
Thomas McCarthy
6 Having One's Cake and Eating It Too: Habermas's Genealogy of Postsecular Reason 132
Amy Allen
7 Forgetting Isaac: Faith and the Philosophical Impossibility of a Postsecular Society 154
J. M. Bernstein
Part III World Society, Global Public Sphere, and Democratic Deliberation
8 A Postsecular Global Order? The Pluralism of Forms of Life and Communicative Freedom 179
James Bohman
9 Global Religion and the Postsecular Challenge 203
Hent de Vries
10 Religion and the Public Sphere: What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizenship? 230
Cristina Lafont
11 Violating Neutrality? Religious Validity Claims and Democratic Legitimacy 249
Maeve Cooke
Part IV Translating Religion, Communicative Freedom, and Solidarity
12 Sources of Morality in Habermas's Recent Work on Religion and Freedom 277
Matthias Fritsch
13 Solidarity with the Past and the Work of Translation: Reflections on Memory Politics and the Postsecular 301
Max Pensky
14 What Lacks is Feeling: Hume versus Kant and Habermas 322
John Milbank
Reply to My Critics 347
Jurgen Habermas (Translated by Ciaran Cronin)
Appendix: Religion in Habermas's Work 391
Eduardo Mendieta
Notes and References 408
Bibliography of Works by Jurgen Habermas 465
Index 471
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