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Religious Traditions in the Modern Public Sphere. The Case of Romanian Church

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Secularization was a broad phenomenon of modernity. His purpose, the disappearance of religion, is still true? Last two decennial studies attest the revitalization of sacred and his repositioning in the public sphere. Christian religious traditions have been a source of public reason. Today they must translate their values in a secular language. The role of religious traditions in Europe is to lobby for entering values in public reason. Romanian Church had not and has not a social doctrine. Can it be considered an actor of public reason?

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cfr. Taylor (2007).

  2. 2.

    In ancient Greece the individual lacks a belief in a deity was banished from the city, considered a public danger, especially for the education of the young (Cfr. Adamut 2011, pp. 152–153).

  3. 3.

    Cfr Gauchet (2006).

  4. 4.

    Cfr Grozio (2010), Von Pufendorf (2008), and Locke (1990).

  5. 5.

    Ibidem

  6. 6.

    Cfr Gauchet, M., op. cit., p. 5ss.

  7. 7.

    Cfr Ibidem, pp. 11–12.

  8. 8.

    Cfr Manent (2003).

  9. 9.

    Cfr Ibidem, p. 25.

  10. 10.

    Mills (1959, p. 33).

  11. 11.

    Cfr Luckmann (1967).

  12. 12.

    Cfr Wilson (1966).

  13. 13.

    Cfr Berger (1967).

  14. 14.

    Cfr Acquaviva (1991).

  15. 15.

    Cfr Inglehart and Norris (2004, p. 3).

  16. 16.

    Cfr Rawls (2011, p. 27).

  17. 17.

    Ibidem, 27.

  18. 18.

    Cfr Williame (2004, p. 11ss).

  19. 19.

    Patapievici (2005a): A true religion, though conducted only private, cannot be only private.

  20. 20.

    Cfr Weiler (2003).

  21. 21.

    Habermas (2011, p. 73).

  22. 22.

    Cfr Ferrari (1999, pp. 2–3).

  23. 23.

    Habermas believes that the German noun Toleranz was borrowed from Latin and French in the sixteenth century, a period of religious wars. In the XVII–XVIII centuries, tolerance becomes a legal connotation. Cfr Habermas (1, 2003, pp. 2–12).

  24. 24.

    Williame, J.-P., op. cit., p. 40.

  25. 25.

    Cfr Maritain (1999, pp. 42–43).

  26. 26.

    Cfr Vlastos (1939, p. 26).

  27. 27.

    Cfr Kalyvas (1996, p. 260).

  28. 28.

    Cfr Barbu (1999, p. 246).

  29. 29.

    Cfr Ionescu (2001, pp. 71–112).

  30. 30.

    Stanescu (1920, p. 246), apud Barbu D., Republica absentă, p. 248.

  31. 31.

    Ionescu (1–3, 1921, p. 1).

  32. 32.

    Soare (2004, p. 194).

  33. 33.

    Cfr Staniloaie (2004, p. 119).

  34. 34.

    Cfr Idem, Crestinism si valoare in viata natională, Lucefărul 2 (1941a, p. 130).

  35. 35.

    Idem, Un atlet al nationalismului crestin, apud Costion Niculescu, Teologul in cetate. Parintele Staniloaie si aria politicii, pp. 35–35, Cristiana, Bucuresti (2003).

  36. 36.

    Idem, Iisus Cristos si problema socială, Telegraful Roman 52 (25 decembrie 1941b).

  37. 37.

    Idem, Tara noua, Telegraful Roman 36 (3 septembrie 1944).

  38. 38.

    Balan (1923).

  39. 39.

    Ionescu (1, 2002, p. 162).

  40. 40.

    Cfr Chetie (1995, pp. 26–35).

  41. 41.

    Cfr Sandu (2000, pp. 80–83).

  42. 42.

    Patapievici (28 ianuarie–3 februarie 2005b, p. 5).

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Liviu, M. (2017). Religious Traditions in the Modern Public Sphere. The Case of Romanian Church. In: Maturo, A., Hošková-Mayerová, Š., Soitu, DT., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Recent Trends in Social Systems: Quantitative Theories and Quantitative Models. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 66. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40585-8_12

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