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- Title
Christianity: From a State Religion to Religious Freedom.
- Authors
BABIĆ, MILE
- Abstract
As soon as religious unity, on which political unity was based, collapsed, and as soon as the Christian religion became plural in a single state, denominational wars broke out in the state. In order to maintain peace, the state had to become neutral as regards religions and world views, in other words secular, since it no longer based itself on religious, but on secular sources. Religion was in most cases instrumentalised, just as today human reason is instrumentalised in the interests of political and economic power. We therefore need a secularisation that does not dissolve the otherness of the other, but instead affirms this otherness, in what Jürgen Habermas calls 'translation mode'.
- Subjects
CHURCH &; politics; STATE religion; FREEDOM of religion
- Publication
Concilium (00105236), 2016, Issue 4, p17
- ISSN
0010-5236
- Publication type
Article