Date: 2006
Type: Working Paper
The Relation between Democracy and Religion: Towards a European Discursive “Model”?
Working Paper, EUI LAW, 2006/37
UNGUREANU, Camil, The Relation between Democracy and Religion: Towards a European Discursive “Model”?, EUI LAW, 2006/37 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6425
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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
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/6425
ISSN: 1725-6739
Series/Number: EUI LAW; 2006/37
Publisher: European University Institute