The Relation between Democracy and Religion: Towards a European Discursive Model?

Camil Ungureanu

No 37, EUI-LAW Working Papers from European University Institute (EUI), Department of Law

Abstract: In this paper we advance the argument that, under certain socio-political and cognitive conditions, the manifestation of religion in the opinion-oriented public spheres can have an inherent value for democratic life. However, it is only after processes of selective interpretation and transformation through inclusive discursive practices that religious semantic contents may legitimately influence decisional interpretations of constitutional principles and rights. This model draws on republicanism and deliberative democracy: given that these two conceptions do not start out from an abstract principle of liberty as non-interference but from a multidimensional conception of freedom embedded in various historical contexts of mutual recognition, they are more predisposed to provide conceptual resources for envisaging a discursive relation between democracy and religion.

Keywords: democracy; fundamental/human rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12-01
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