Is the Concept of the Post-Secular Justified? On the 15th Anniversary of J. Habermas’ Istanbul Report “Against Military Atheism”

Abstract

On April 22, 2023, the editorial board of the journal “St. Tikhon’s University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies” with the participation of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of St. Tikhon’s University, within the framework of the annual conference “Research in Religion: Past, Present, Future”, a round table dedicated to the problems associated with the concept of “post-secular”. The presentations and the subsequent discussion addressed the issues of modern understanding of the boundaries and conditions for the use of the term “post-secular”, the relationship between theories of secularization and the concepts of post-secular, the so-called problem “post-secular hybrids”, questions about the relationship between the real social and discursive dimensions of the concepts of the post-secular, about the empirical foundations and metaphysical premises of the theories of secularization and the concepts of the post-secular, the problem of Eurocentricity of the concept of the post-secular and its applicability to other cultural regions, the impact of the concept of the post-secular on the understanding of religion in general, the problems of correlation religion and science in modern consciousness, various aspects of the position of religion in modern society. We bring to the attention of the readers the materials of the round table.