Summary
Herman Lubbe: Religion after the Enlightenment
No matter how much the influence of the Enlightenment led to the loss of the authority of religious beliefs in the existing scientific picture of the world, or above all to the cultural and social dispossession of religious institutions, the death of religion did not happen, as the rationalist fundamentalism of the Enlightenment announced. In other words, here religion did not turn out to be an illusion, but a theory of religion that reached for such a naive interpretation. The discussion of the distinguished German thinker Herman Lubbe is a valuable contribution to the critical understanding of the difficult process of secularization in contemporary society, with all the mortgages it entails. The author of this extremely stimulating study pleads for the affirmative principle of freedom, which also includes the freedom to express one's religion...
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