{"id":293,"date":"2017-10-28T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:05:01","slug":"apsr-article-taking-religion-seriously-habermas-on-religious-translation-and-cooperative-learning-in-post-secular-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/apsr-article-taking-religion-seriously-habermas-on-religious-translation-and-cooperative-learning-in-post-secular-society\/","title":{"rendered":"APSR Article: Taking Religion Seriously? Habermas on Religious Translation and Cooperative Learning in Post-secular Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>by\u00a0Giorgi Areshidze, Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This article evaluates J\u00fcrgen Habermas&#8217;s attempt to reopen political liberalism to religion. In trying to \u201ctake religion seriously,\u201d Habermas goes further than John Rawls and other liberal theorists by affirming that religious traditions articulate truths on which democratic societies continue to depend for their civic and moral health. \u201cPost-secular\u201d societies, in his view, should learn from religion by translating its \u201cmoral intuitions\u201d into universal secular language. Although Habermas in this way appears friendlier to religion than Rawls, unlike Rawls he also calls for the \u201cmodernization of religious consciousness.\u201d This theological transformation not only reveals the foundationalist presuppositions of liberalism, but also points to a highly attenuated conception of learning from religion. Taking religion seriously will require us to be open to its insights not only when they agree with, but especially when they challenge, our secular presuppositions. This dimension of religion is at risk of getting \u201clost in translation\u201d in the Habermasian paradigm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/american-political-science-review\/article\/taking-religion-seriously-habermas-on-religious-translation-and-cooperative-learning-in-postsecular-society\/7A0B8D0F808AAE0E8FF79A183AC09A25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to Article on Cambridge Core<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Giorgi Areshidze, Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. Abstract This article evaluates J\u00fcrgen Habermas&#8217;s attempt to reopen political liberalism to religion. In trying to \u201ctake religion seriously,\u201d Habermas goes further than John Rawls and other liberal theorists by affirming that religious traditions articulate truths on which democratic societies continue to depend for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}