Religion in the public sphere

Smith, Andrew F.

doi:10.1177/0191453714530984

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“…In a very thorough study, Andrew Smith (2014) identifies six major trends in approaching the relationship between religion and the public sphere. The first supports the radical exclusion of religion from the public sphere: the dominant idea is that the deliberation which would be based on religious motivations and which would replace rational argumentation by religious dogma is unacceptable within the secular rule of law.…”

Section: Religion and Public Sphere-theoretical Framementioning

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Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Mihai

2023

Religions

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In the present study, I undertake to show that the public sphere can be constructed within the frames of a discourse loaded with religious symbols, either as part of religious institutions and manifestations, or, in a more interesting case, through the media discourse. I want to show that media functions as a ritualizing agent, which builds symbolic spaces of action and thinking. Journalists accomplish this by presenting events as if they had pre-established and immutable order and meaning, set within a religious system. The ritualization of the journalistic performance and the mythologization of the representation of events are some of the strongest tools for promoting a representation of events in a language loaded with religious symbols and to outline a public sphere constructed in a religious frame. Thus, using a sacralizing language, media creates a religious public sphere, which function as a liminal, subjunctive framework: it is possible to assume that now a new type of public sphere, defined by a religious frame, is developed, in a social context and symbolical frame that are totally different to the usual circumstances of a religious experience.

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Section: Religion and Public Sphere-theoretical Framementioning

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Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Mihai

2023

Religions

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Islamic feminism and the renegotiation of new knowledge through translation

Embabi

2021

Translation Studies

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Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model

Parmaksız

2021

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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In this article, I examine the relation of religious language and public debate within the context of postsecularism and defend a falsificationist model. I argue that the postsecular public sphere ought to problematize four characteristics of modern thinking; the exclusion of truth and religious language, the asymmetry between religious and secular language, the essentialization of the secular and the religious and, lastly, the exclusivity and exhaustiveness of the secular and religious as categories. Based on these four problematizations, I defend a falsificationist model for the admission of religious language in the public sphere and argue that we ought to allow citizens the right to use the language of their choice in the public sphere, provided that they also provide in their preferred language ‘conditions of falsifiability’, that is, those circumstances upon which the speaking party would accept their argumentation as void.

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Religion in the public sphere

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Islamic feminism and the renegotiation of new knowledge through translation

Religious language in the postsecular public sphere: A falsificationist model

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