TY - BOOK ID - 137641823 TI - Religion and public reason : a comparison of the positions of John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur PY - 2014 SN - 3110487969 3110347334 1306935881 3110347326 9783110371123 311037112X 9781306935883 9783110346213 3110346214 9783110347326 9783110487961 9783110347333 PB - Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and politics. KW - Rawls, John, KW - Habermas, Jürgen. KW - Ricœur, Paul. KW - Religion. KW - liberalism. KW - postsecular society. KW - public sphere. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137641823 AB - This book compares three approaches to public reason and to the public space accorded to religions: the liberal platform of an overlapping consensus proposed by John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas's discourse ethical reformulation of Kant's universalism and its realization in the public sphere, and the co-founding role which Paul Ricoeur attributes to the particular traditions that have shaped their cultures and the convictions of citizens.The premises of their positions are analysed under four aspects: (1) the normative framework which determines the specific function of public reason; (2) their anthropologies and theories of action; (3) the dimensions of social life and its concretization in a democratic political framework; (4) the different views of religion that follow from these factors, including their understanding of the status of metaphysical and religious truth claims, and the role of religion as a practice and conviction in a pluralist society. Recent receptions and critiques in English and German are brought into conversation: philosophers and theologians discuss the scope of public reason, and the task of translation from faith traditions, as well as the role they might have in the diversity of world cultures for shaping a shared cosmopolitan horizon. ER -