Reflections on Trigg and Nussbaum’s views on Religion in Public Life
Reflections on Trigg and Nussbaum’s views on Religion in Public Life

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary political liberalism, especially in the English speaking world, is usually regarded as being hostile to religious belief and religious believers. This is because its proponents develop a sophisticated view, inspired by John Rawls, that aims to come up with procedural or principled reasons that would just so happen to exclude most religious views from public discourse, and move such discourse (and so society and culture) along a channel that accords well with the beliefs and values of contemporary secularism. Many thinkers have reservations about such an approach, regarding it as honestly misguided, perhaps disingenuously conceived, or even as a rigged procedure to exclude (or at least contain) religious beliefs from having any political influence. Some resist it completely and reject the whole approach to political theory that comes from Rawls.

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