Jonathan VanAntwerpen & Craig Calhoun 
Habermas and Religion [PDF ebook] 

List of Abbreviations vii
Editors’ Introduction 1
Part I Rationalization, Secularisms, and Modernities
1 Exploring the Postsecular: Three Meanings of ‘the
Secular’ and Their Possible Transcendence 27
José Casanova
2 The Anxiety of Contingency: Religion in a Secular Age 49
María Herrera Líma
3 Is the Postsecular a Return to Political Theology? 72
María Pía Lara
4 An Engagement with Jurgen Habermas on Postmetaphysical
Philosophy, Religion, and Political Dialogue 92
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Part II The Critique of Reason and the Unfinished Project of
Enlightenment
5 The Burdens of Modernized Faith and Postmetaphysical Reason in
Habermas’s ‘Unfinished Project of
Enlightenment’ 115
Thomas Mc Carthy
6 Having One’s Cake and Eating It Too: Habermas’s
Genealogy of Postsecular Reason 132
Amy Allen
7 Forgetting Isaac: Faith and the Philosophical Impossibility of
a Postsecular Society 154
J. M. Bernstein
Part III World Society, Global Public Sphere, and Democratic
Deliberation
8 A Postsecular Global Order? The Pluralism of Forms of Life and
Communicative Freedom 179
James Bohman
9 Global Religion and the Postsecular Challenge 203
Hent de Vries
10 Religion and the Public Sphere: What are the Deliberative
Obligations of Democratic Citizenship? 230
Cristina Lafont
11 Violating Neutrality? Religious Validity Claims and
Democratic Legitimacy 249
Maeve Cooke
Part IV Translating Religion, Communicative Freedom, and
Solidarity
12 Sources of Morality in Habermas’s Recent Work on
Religion and Freedom 277
Matthias Fritsch
13 Solidarity with the Past and the Work of Translation:
Reflections on Memory Politics and the Postsecular 301
Max Pensky
14 What Lacks is Feeling: Hume versus Kant and Habermas
322
John Milbank
Reply to My Critics 347
Jürgen Habermas (Translated by Ciaran Cronin)
Appendix: Religion in Habermas’s Work 391
Eduardo Mendieta
Notes and References 408
Bibliography of Works by Jürgen Habermas 465
Index 471

Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Eduardo Mendieta is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook.
Jonathan Van Antwerpen is Director of the Program on Religion and the Public Sphere at the Social Science Research Council, New York.