http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/09/15/translation-and-transformation/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/09/15/translation-and-transformation/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:14:19 +0000 Craig Calhoun http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=344 my last post, I closed with two questions relating to Jurgen Habermas's recent work on religion and the public sphere: First, is a genealogical or language-theoretical reconstruction of reason adequate without an existential connection between social and cultural history on the one hand and individual biography on the other? Second, is "translation" an adequate conceptualization of what is involved in making religious insights accessible to nonreligious participants in public discourse (and vice-versa)? The two questions are closely related, for the issue is how communication is achieved across lines of deep difference. Helpful as translation may be, it is not the whole story. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/09/15/translation-and-transformation/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/25/nothing-special-about-religion/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/25/nothing-special-about-religion/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:58:26 +0000 Mark S. Cladis http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=273 "Religion in the public sphere" that we live in an age when many inside and outside of the academy are thinking and talking about religion---specifically about religion in public and whether it ought to be there. Many are turning their attention to the relation among religion, law, and politics, now that the once-common theories about the inevitable march of (what is commonly understood as) secularization have been mostly discredited. Such theories were based on an erroneous interpretation of the Enlightenment as a monolithic force that discounted religion, and on the view that modernity would necessarily usher in secularism, that is, launch an age in which religion had no significant standing. Yet most have come to realize that religion as an intellectual, cultural, and political force is not, in fact, waning on the globe. To help us think about religion in the public and political landscape, I propose a model---what I call Public Landscape as Varied Topography---in which there is room for various socio-political stances, religious or otherwise. [...]]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/25/nothing-special-about-religion/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/24/secularism-and-critique/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/24/secularism-and-critique/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:02:58 +0000 Charles Taylor http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=235 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/04/24/secularism-and-critique/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/24/recognizing-religion/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/24/recognizing-religion/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:00:29 +0000 Craig Calhoun http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/24/%e2%80%9crecognizing%e2%80%9d-religion/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/24/recognizing-religion/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/14/an-ideal-of-conscientious-engagement/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/14/an-ideal-of-conscientious-engagement/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:00:01 +0000 Christopher Eberle http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/14/an-ideal-of-conscientious-engagement/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/14/an-ideal-of-conscientious-engagement/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/05/taking-religion-seriously/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/05/taking-religion-seriously/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:05:53 +0000 Simone Chambers http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/05/taking-religion-seriously/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/05/taking-religion-seriously/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/29/is-religion-a-constitutionally-legitimate-basis-of-lawmaking/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/29/is-religion-a-constitutionally-legitimate-basis-of-lawmaking/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:00:43 +0000 Michael Perry http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/29/is-religion-a-constitutionally-legitimate-basis-of-lawmaking/ morally legitimate basis of (coercive) lawmaking in a liberal democracy? Second, is religion a constitutionally legitimate basis of lawmaking in the United States?]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/29/is-religion-a-constitutionally-legitimate-basis-of-lawmaking/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/26/religious-reasons-secular-revelations/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/26/religious-reasons-secular-revelations/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:04:43 +0000 Robert Bellah http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/26/religious-reasons-secular-revelations/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/26/religious-reasons-secular-revelations/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/11/cosmopolitanism-and-the-ideal-of-postsecular-public-reason/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/11/cosmopolitanism-and-the-ideal-of-postsecular-public-reason/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:00:54 +0000 Craig Calhoun http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/11/cosmopolitanism-and-the-ideal-of-postsecular-public-reason/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/11/cosmopolitanism-and-the-ideal-of-postsecular-public-reason/feed/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/08/religious-citizens-public-reasons/ http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/08/religious-citizens-public-reasons/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:40:45 +0000 Cristina Lafont http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/08/religious-citizens-public-reasons/ Democratic citizens cannot determine in advance of actual public deliberation the reasons upon which their political decisions ought to be based. In order to be legitimate, their decisions ought to be based on those reasons that have survived the scrutiny of political deliberation in the public sphere.]]> http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/02/08/religious-citizens-public-reasons/feed/