Herder on the Emancipatory Power of Religion and Religious Education

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ID6403191
AuthorsMihaela Czobor-Lupp (0000-0003-0924-8769, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume79
Issue2
Pages239-261
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670516001054
OpenAlexW2606441230
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

Johann Gottfried Herder was both a philosopher and an active Lutheran minister, who constantly faced the difficult task of negotiating in his own work and life, in his public speeches and activities, the relationship to be established between reason and religion, both their limits and the promises they carry for each other. This article examines Herder's writings on language and reason, religion, myth, and history with the intention of putting together an account of religion and reason along lines that emphasize their continuity with each other. I argue that, in Herder's view, religion and religious education can play an active role in forming the disposition of individuals to humanity, in cultivating both their freedom and their capacity to empathize with others and love them, thus helping to materialize the emancipatory project of the Enlightenment

Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Humanity · Mythology · Negotiation · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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