Postseküler ve Siyasalı Yeniden Düşünmek

Abstract

he notion of postsecularity has come to the fore in recognizing theneglected significance of religion and belief in terms of their normative,social and political contributions to the individual and collective livesof contemporary times. The literature of postsecularism, essentially,takes issue with the normative-political problematique of coexistenceof diverse beliefs in the political community. In this respect, JürgenHabermas joins the term of postsecular consciousness to be able to dealwith the persistence of religiousity and faith in modernized societies andseeks ways to include religious reasoning and moral intuitions into thepublic sphere and will-formation of the political community. However,he ends up restricting religious moral and political contribution strictlyto the general public sphere and ultimately civil society. This articleargues that the inadequacy of his postsecular orientation has to do withhis idea of the political, which ignores contestation and pluralization inrelation to the very foundations of the political. The article also claimsthat the postsecular turn in political theory fulfills its promises, if it opensthe relationship between the secular/immanence and the religious/transcendence to diverse/plural interpretations, and simultaneouslycontest the political as ontology among subjects of diverse beliefs in thepolitical community.