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Abstract
How to deal with religion in the public discourse? In a post-secular society, this question has to be negotiated again. The classical answer has been given by John Rawls' political liberalism: Excluding religious beliefs from the public political arena and assigning it to the private sphere seemed to be a reasonable solution. But under the conditions of post-secularity, a proper model of democratic deliberation has to abstain from the concept of a common and absolute reason, which itself has been fundamental for public justification. Instead, a plurality of particular perspectives has to be acknowledged and harmonized. Religious belief is only one of these perspectives
Following William James and his pluralistic pragmatism, this book develops new perspectives for a democracy that is liberal as well as deliberative.
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