Habermas and Religious Communication

The Insufficiency of the Translation Proviso

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3598641
AutoresLars Rhodin (Peking University, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume8
Fascículo10
Páginas218
Data de publicação2017-10-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel8100218
OpenAlexW2764202669
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

Much has been debated and written about the translation proviso, its implications, and its rationality. At its core, it is about communication and a transition in religious communication that means it can become secularly engaged. This paper argues that the theory of the translation proviso is insufficient to accommodate religious communication and, in order to support the arguments made, considers associated aspects of the work of Habermas, such as solidarity, tolerance and universalism, as well, of course, as communication. Considerations in this wider context lead to a growing awareness that the translation proviso and its prescriptive tendencies may be seen as being an ominous contradiction of much of the other work of Habermas and that, far from being postmetaphysical and postmodern, it may have elements of being a 'big idea

Contradiction · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Postmodernism · Rationality · Sociology · Solidarity · Universalism · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Education and Schools