Religion and Modernity Living in the Hypercontext
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760759 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabina Lovibond (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 617-631 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2005.00240.x |
| OpenAlex | W2039927969 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper discusses Jeffrey Stout's thesis that modern societies are “secular,” not in the sense that religion has disappeared from them, but in a procedural sense having to do with what can properly be assumed by participants in moral or political discussion. I endorse this thesis, but argue that Stout employs a notion of justification (with regard to moral belief), which leans too far toward descriptivism or relativism. As an alternative account of the status of religion within “the hypercontext, modernity,” I commend Kant's view of the religious attitude as a fundamentally ethical one, destined eventually to dispense with any “historical vehicle” in the form of revealed doctrine or supernaturalism. Stout's discussion is weakened by its retreat from commitment to the unity of practical reason, though it does pay illuminating tribute to the democratic values of civility and attentiveness
Aesthetics · Civility · Democracy · Doctrine · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Modernity · Moral relativism · Political science · Politics · Relativism · Sociology · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2005 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |