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<p>This paper challenges the view that scientific culture promotes democracy while religious culture threatens it. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s account of the “sacred complex” and his theory of deliberative democracy, the paper argues that religion and science are co-evolving responses to the cognitive and social demands of human life. Religious contributions, when open to deliberation, serve vital democratic functions. The liberal state, although committed to worldview neutrality and equal participation, must therefore include religious reasoning in public deliberation to sustain the symbolic reproduction of the lifeworld and the legitimacy of democratic will-formation.</p>

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Scientific Culture, Religious Culture, and the Democratic Ideal

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    2025年7月8日

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  • Yiftach Fehige

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This paper challenges the view that scientific culture promotes democracy while religious culture threatens it. Drawing on Jürgen Habermas’s account of the “sacred complex” and his theory of deliberative democracy, the paper argues that religion and science are co-evolving responses to the cognitive and social demands of human life. Religious contributions, when open to deliberation, serve vital democratic functions. The liberal state, although committed to worldview neutrality and equal participation, must therefore include religious reasoning in public deliberation to sustain the symbolic reproduction of the lifeworld and the legitimacy of democratic will-formation.