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APPROVED ; This thesis aims to explore Rorty's pragmatic approach to religion and critically engage with it. In the core of this approach lies his distinction between private and public projects, and his plea for the privatization of religion. Rorty argues that private beliefs do not need to be justified to others. They are about one's own making sense of the world, and individuals are under no obligation, neither epistemological nor moral, to justify them to other people. He insists that religious beliefs should be construed and understood as private beliefs. Throughout the thesis, I analyse the details and the implications of this position. I engage with the ethics of belief debate and examine the robustness of Rorty's views on unjustified private beliefs. I engage with his pragmatic predecessors and explore their influences on Rorty. I investigate his stance on religion's place in public. I discuss his views on democracy in relation to his views on religion. Finally, I compare his pragmatic approach to its current, mainstream alternatives. I conclude that Rorty offers a novel, attractive way to think and talk about religion. His approach is tolerant enough to accommodate both theistic and atheistic orientations. It is also robust enough to be able to fend its critics off.

In Zeiten globaler Finanz-, Wirtschafts- und Medienmärkte, großer Migrationsbewegungen und allgegenwärtiger Mobilität ist die bewohnte Erde erstmals in ihrer kulturellen, religiösen, sozialen und ökonomischen Vielgestaltigkeit sichtbar und begreifbar geworden. Die Kulturen und Religionen sind näher aneinander gerückt, die religiösen Räume fluid und hybrid geworden. Die Auseinandersetzungen mit Fragen der Interkulturalität und Interreligiosität in diesem Band fokussieren auf systematisch-theologisch reflektierte und lebenspraktisch verantwortete Modelle möglicher Begegnungen zwischen den Relig

"Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions."Few people would ever expect that Karl Marx is the writer of the above statement. He not only wrote it, but he did so in the same breath of his more famous dictum that "religion is the opiate of the masses." How can one reconcile such different perspectives on the power and ubiquity of religion?In this compact reader of Marx's essential thought on religion, John

How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship between power and religion always negative or can religion also affect individuals and societies positively? This volume of the EuARe Lectures collects the texts delivered at the Third Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (2020) on the topic "The Power of Religion / Religion and Power".