Published : 2025-06-30

Postreligious Communication: An Attempt of Analysis Based on J. Habermas’ Concept of Post-Secularism

Abstract

Speech by Jürgen Habermas in the Cathedral of St. Paul in Frankfurt, immediately after the terrorist attacks in New York, is an impulse to reflect on the type of postreligious communication. Post-secularism, according to Habermas, is primarily a project of translating from a religious language in a way that guarantees acceptance by secular minds, requiring believers to adapt to the conditions prevailing in a democratic and pluralistic society. The religious message associated with translation into secular language in a post-secular society leads, if not to the direct stripping of the content of religious messages from the eschatological and transcendent layer, then at least to the „dissolution” of the eschatological and transcendent area. This results directly from the need to translate religious content and beliefs by believing citizens into a language acceptable to the secular majority of post-secular society. The position and role of the Christian religion in the postsecular society largely depends on the quality of postreligious communication. For this purpose, it is necessary to find an adequate form that will not deprive religious messages of their basic content.

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postreligious communication, secularization, post-secularism, postsecular society, religion



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