Habermas and the 'Post-Secular Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Austin Harrington (0000-0003-4635-2741, University of Erfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 543-560 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431007084370 |
| OpenAlex | W2125877445 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 6 |
The article appraises Habermas's recent writings on theology and social theory and their relevance to a new sociology of religion in the 'post-secular society'. Beginning with Kant's Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone, Habermas revisits his earlier thesis of the 'linguistification of the sacred', arguing for a 'rescuing translation' of the traditional contents of religious language through pursuit of a via media between an overconfident project of modernizing secularization, on the one hand, and a fundamentalism of religious orthodoxies, on the other. Several questions, however, must be raised about this current project. How far can Habermas engage adequately with religious ideas of the absolute while still retaining certain broadly functionalist theoretical premises? Is the notion of an ongoing secularization process in the 'post-secular society' a contradiction in terms? What appropriate 'limits and boundaries' are to be accepted between the domains of knowledge and faith, and how strictly can they be drawn? How coherent is the notion of 'methodological atheism', and how consistently can Habermas pursue the project of a 'religious genealogy of reason
Atheism · Contradiction · Epistemology · Faith · Fundamentalism · Islam · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Secularization · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of religion · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
Jürgen Habermas
Religion as a lifeworld
Is There a Postsecular
The Coexistence of Faith and Reason
Habermas lector de Kierkegaard
Une réception internationale contrastée
Habermas’ Wrapped Reichstag
Sociology as a Quest for a Good Society
The Future of Religious History in Habermas’s Critical Theory of Religion
Pilgrimage mobilities
Auch in unserer Zeit werden Götter in den Massen geboren“. Emile Durkheims Erklärungsansätze zur Entstehung gesellschaftlicher Ideale in der Moderne
‘What it means to be truly human’
Religion in the public sphere
Post-secular sociology
Localising and acculturating the global
O Supremo Tribunal Federal e a anencefalia
In the letter of mere reason
Human Rights and a Post-Secular Religion of Humanity
Recovery Spirituality
Postsecularist discourse in an ‘age of transition’
Postsecular resistance, the body, and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Performing the “post-secular” in Santiago de Compostela
Our Aim Is to Link Humanity to the Divine”
Introducing Post-Secular Social Work
Post‐Secularism and the E uropean C ourt of H uman R ights
No proviso
Responding to the post-9/11 challenges facing ‘post secular societies
The Reciprocal Translation Proviso
Argumentos religiosos y matrimonio igualitario
Esoteric currents as discursive complexes
Theological History and the Legitimacy of the Modern Social Sciences
Taking Religion Seriously? Habermas on Religious Translation and Cooperative Learning in Post-secular Society
A Sociology of the Demonic
Hegel, unhappy consciousness and endogenous cultural change
Here I Stand
SSSR Presidential Address Public Religions and the Postsecular
Neoliberalism as Religion
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |