Habermas e o debate em torno do secularismo: implicações para o lugar da religião na esfera pública

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal investigar o conceito de pós-secularismo na filosofia de Jürgen Habermas. Para tanto, buscamos compreender como a religião aparece ao longo da construção do pensamento habermasiano, pontuando as diversas revisões feitas pelo filósofo e suas escolhas metodológicas, que resultaram numa mudança de perspectiva sobre o papel da religião na esfera pública das sociedades contemporâneas. A discussão de Jürgen Habermas se insere num debate mais amplo sobre o reexame do conceito de secularismo, envolvendo não apenas a filosofia, mas a ampla gama das ciências humanas e sociais. Assim, procuramos apresentar o contexto geral desse debate e os principais interlocutores com quem ou contra quem Habermas constrói sua argumentação. Por fim, tentamos mostrar de que maneira as revisões feitas por Habermas nos seus últimos escritos a respeito da religião, bem como a apropriação do conceito de sociedades pós-seculares, se enquadram na moldura geral da teoria habermasiana, principalmente dentro da estrutura do agir comunicativo e da política deliberativa.

"Republic of Instability":Artifice, Death and the Afterlife in Mark Doty's "Murano"

An article on a single poem by Mark Doty, published as part of the "Hospitable Forms: Post-Secular Thought in New-Century Poetics" feature.

Deus abençoe a América: religião, política e relações internacionais dos Estados Unidos

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

El dilema tiempo-creación en el pensamiento de Alberto Magno

La cuestión sobre la creación y su relación con el tiempo constituye una de las problemáticas fundamentales del siglo XIII y un punto de encuentro entre el pensamiento filosófico y teológico, entre una representación científica del mundo que se descubre en la transmisión del pensamiento griego y lo que la palabra revelada ofrece como adhesión de fe. El presente trabajo intenta mostrar el aporte de Alberto Magno a partir del análisis de de las siguientes obras: In II Sententiarum, Physica, Metaphysica y Summa Theologiae. Alberto expone su pensamiento a partir de la interpretación del Génesis 1, 1: «en un principio Dios creó el cielo y la tierra». En su opinión, la noción de principio señala un comienzo temporal, de modo que un universo creado, necesariamente debe haber comenzado a ser en el tiempo, asumiendo como contradictoria la posibilidad de un universo creado y eterno. Admite, sin embargo, que no es posible demostrar racionalmente que el universo creado tuvo un comienzo. Por esta razón, la problemática del inicio temporal del universo creado pertenece propiamente al ámbito teológico y de la fe, ya que no puede llegar a ser resuelta desde la filosofía y el conocimiento natural.

El conocimiento humano acerca de Dios según el pensamiento de Alberto Magno

La cuestión sobre la posibilidad de conocer naturalmente algo acerca de Dios fue abordada por numerosos pensadores medievales. El tema no era sencillo, pues requería considerar los alcances del intelecto humano, elaborar argumentos sensatos que conduzcan a Dios y encontrar un modo adecuado de expresión. El propósito del presente trabajo es indagar los planteos de Alberto Magno sobre esta inquietante cuestión y exponer algunas de sus ideas más destacadas.

Diary : manuscript, 1666-1679, 1723, and 1726

Diary concerning chiefly religious matters, mostly Puritanical confessions of Tompson's piety not living up to the expectation of the Lord. There is also mention of the many afflictions God is "pleased" to bestow upon Tompson's wife.

[Pamphlets issued by the Commission of the American Episcopal Church]

Mode of access: Internet.

A concise view of the succession of sacred literature, in a chronological arrangement of authors and their works, from the invention of alphabetical characters to the year of Our Lord 345.

Issued as Vol. 1: no more published in this edition. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.

A short method with modern doubt. A centenary contribution. In three parts: 1. Jesus His own proof. II. The laws of nature. III. Correspondence with Spinoza.

Mode of access: Internet.

Studia patristica.

Papers presented to the International Conference on Patristic Studies. 2d- 1955-

Muslim Women Managing Women's Shelters : Somaya, the Muslimwoman and Religion as Resource

This article focuses on Sisters’ Shelter Somaya in Sweden, an organization unique in its claim to be a women’s shelter by and for Muslim women, and in its combining of Islamic and secular feminisms. Examining the organization’s self-presentations, the author argues that there is, however, an ongoing shift from an emphasis on its Muslim profile to a dissolution of the very same. Looking into potential loss in the process (for clients, activists, allies, and feminism at large), the analysis draws on current research on anti-Muslim intolerance and normative secularism. The concept of the “Muslim woman” is employed to illustrate the stereotyping that continuously associates Muslim women with “victims” inhabiting shelters rather than capable “managers”. Intersectionality is pointed at as an emic strategy adopted by Somaya to overcome division, but also critically analysed as a consensus-creating signifier that hinders diversity. Thus,the article raises the increasingly important issue of the relationship between religion, gender, and feminism in the post-secular turn, and the author calls for critical self-reflection and creative affirmation in the interaction with heterogeneous others.

On the symbiosis of law and truth in Christian theology: Reconciling universal and particular through the Pauline law of love

This article argues that the secular liberal and positivist foundations of the modern Western legal system render it violent. In particular, the liberal exclusion of faith and subjectivity in favour of abstract and universal reason in conjunction with its privileging of individual autonomy at the expense of the community leads to alienation of the individual from the community. Similarly, the positivist exclusion of faith and theology from law, with its enforced conformity to the posited law, also results in this violence of alienation. In response, this article proposes a new foundation for law, a natural law based in the truth of Trinitarian theology articulated by John Milbank. In the Trinity, the members exist as a perfect unity in diversity, providing a model for the reconciliation of the legal individual and community: the law of love. Through the law of love as the basic norm, individuals love their neighbours as themselves, reconciling the particular and the universal, and providing a community of peace rather than violence.

Consumed by Faith: The development of Christian Fundamentalism and its applications in contemporary society

My research aims to understand how and why fundamentalists justify violence against people who do not fit their profile of "righteous" or "saved" persons, such as abortion doctors and clinic workers, gays and lesbians, and Jews. The first section of this paper travels through the history of fundamentalism since its origins in the British and American apocalipticism, or belief in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. However, my history of Protestant Fundamentalism in the United States will focus on the ways in which Fundamentalism developed in response to many changes in American social structure. I interpret Fundamentalism as an anti-modern movement seeking to reassert "traditional" Christian values.

An illustration of the doctrines of the Christian religion, with respect to faith and practice, upon the plan of the Assembly's Shorter catechism, comprehending a complete body of divinity /

Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : J. Reid, 1773.

Piety without asceticism, or the protestant Kempis : a manual of Christian faith and practice, selected from the writings of Scougal, Charles How, and Cudworth.

Includes bibliographical references.