A Laicité in the Current Philosophical-Political Debate

Abstract

In a liberal political environment where a certain political constructivism (Rawls) is actively fostered, churches can participate in the public sphere, because reli-gious culture can illuminate certain vital aspects that, in an epistemologically scientific, rationally instrumental, and financially economicist context, have remained forgotten, insofar as religions do not cease to shape the cultural models of the great civilizations (Habermas).