Salvaging and secularizing the semantic contents of religion: The limitations of Habermas's postmetaphysical proposal

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

Volumn 60, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 187-207

  Cooke, Maeve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Habermas; Postmetaphysical thinking; Public sphere; Religion; Semantic resource

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846141472     PISSN: 00207047     EISSN: 15728684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11153-006-0006-5     Document Type: Review

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