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The Public Role of Religion
The Public Role of Religion
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC22 Sociology of Religion (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Religion and religiosity play prominent roles in civil society--shaping norms, values, and behaviours in private and public life. However, religion and religiosity function in various ways as they influence are changing. The focus of this session will be the co-presence of secular and religious world-views; religious movements; religious pluralism, secular movements; secular citizens that recognize the rights of other citizens to their religious conceptions of the world, within the public sphere; various visions of the sacred. An added topic will be the role of the Social Sciences and the Religious Studies in the intermediation between religious views and the public policies. How the specific production of these areas is affecting the perspective of religion by public agents? The scope will be to analyse the public role of religions, or rather, how the public dimension itself becomes the most relevant arena where ideas and ways of conducting investigations ought to converge. Adequate, scientifically balanced knowledge is the foreseen outcome, however, of the application of some kind of methodological expedient, one availing ofepoché, that is, suspension of judgement and acquisition of such knowledge as to enable to express oneself concerning the question. The specific purpose of this session is to verify if, in the face of pluralism, it is not neutrality but impartiality that is required, above all in the field of ethics and the law, where the power of the state must be exerted regardless of who the object of its legislative or punitive interventions may be.
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