Jürgen Habermas and the post-secular relationship between State and Religion in the Brazilian context

Abstract

This article studies the post-secular relationship between State and Religion from the perspective of the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in the context of the growth of the evangelical population and its social and political influence in Brazil. The methodology used was the hypothetical-deductive through the analysis of works by Jürgen Habermas himself that deal with the relationship between Religion and State, as well as secondary sources that deal with the theme according to the Habermasian per-spective. According to Habermas, the public use of reason allows religious to exercise their citizenship by expressing their way of understanding things and contributing to the democratic debate within a neutral state that privileges neither believers nor believ-ers. For this reason, religious citizens must assume the values of a democratic rule of law.