M. Reder, Religion in säkularer Gesellschaft

Jan Frei

pp. 599-602

in: Michael Staudigl (ed), Alfred Schutz and religion, Human Studies 40 (4), 2017.

Abstract

Within the philosophical discourse on religion in society as conducted in European and American political philosophy since the early nineties, a crucial shift occurred when the so-called “secularization thesis” was put into question: according to this criticism, today the linearity of secularization and perhaps even secularization itself, although strongly defended by a number of scholars, can no longer be taken for granted. Jürgen Habermas’ concept of “post-secularism” might be nominated as the classic example of this.