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Responding to the post-9/11 challenges facing 'post secular societies': critical reflections on Habermas's dialogic solutions

Responding to the post-9/11 challenges facing 'post secular societies': critical reflections on Habermas's dialogic solutions
Responding to the post-9/11 challenges facing 'post secular societies': critical reflections on Habermas's dialogic solutions
There is much to be commended in Habermas’s suggestions for the relaxation of the constraints on public liberalism and the idealized norms of deliberative democratic debate in his proposals for the introduction of new institutional spaces that will facilitate the engagement between what he calls ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ citizens in his writings on ‘post-secular’ societies. The article examines the parallels between Habermas’s proposed democratic innovations, which will facilitate the introduction of ‘situated knowledges’ through proposing what I.M. Young would call ‘communicative leveling’, within the context of criticisms of secularism, public realism and the critiques of the idealized norms of deliberative democracy. However, it will be suggested here that there is also a certain convergence between Habermas’s theoretical interventions and the ‘instrumental engagement’ of governments with minority religious communities in the post-9/11 context
1468-7968
McGhee, Derek
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McGhee, Derek
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McGhee, Derek (2012) Responding to the post-9/11 challenges facing 'post secular societies': critical reflections on Habermas's dialogic solutions. Ethnicities. (doi:10.1177/1468796812450860).

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There is much to be commended in Habermas’s suggestions for the relaxation of the constraints on public liberalism and the idealized norms of deliberative democratic debate in his proposals for the introduction of new institutional spaces that will facilitate the engagement between what he calls ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ citizens in his writings on ‘post-secular’ societies. The article examines the parallels between Habermas’s proposed democratic innovations, which will facilitate the introduction of ‘situated knowledges’ through proposing what I.M. Young would call ‘communicative leveling’, within the context of criticisms of secularism, public realism and the critiques of the idealized norms of deliberative democracy. However, it will be suggested here that there is also a certain convergence between Habermas’s theoretical interventions and the ‘instrumental engagement’ of governments with minority religious communities in the post-9/11 context

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e-pub ahead of print date: 9 August 2012
Organisations: Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

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Local EPrints ID: 343342
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/343342
ISSN: 1468-7968
PURE UUID: 18196d6f-97db-4fb7-a9d3-56a3d5cae03c
ORCID for Derek McGhee: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3226-6300

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Date deposited: 03 Oct 2012 13:31
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 12:02

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