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A chegada da democracia como forma de governo hegemónica veio actualizar a problematização da relação entre a religião e a política. Há contornos específicos dessa relação num contexto democrático que convém articular com as narrativas tradicionais em torno da modernidade enquanto «secularização», e também com as críticas mais recentes a que essas narrativas históricas passaram a estar sujeitas. A promessa inicial da democracia consistiu na superação definitiva das tensões que a relação entre religião e política suscitou. Mas cedo se percebeu que essa promessa não seria tão facilmente cumprida, como demonstra a discussão em curso nas várias democracias ocidentais sobre a presença do religioso no espaço público. As dificuldades começam logo na desapontante auto-evidência da fronteira entre o «espaço público» e o «domínio privado». Mas não terminam aqui.
The arrival of democracy as a hegemonic form of government has led to an updating of the issues surrounding the relationship between religion and politics. There are particular aspects of this relationship in a democratic context that need to be articulated with traditional narratives with regard to modernity as ‘secularisation’, and also with the most recent criticisms to which these historical narratives have been subjected. The original promise of democracy consisted in overcoming once and for all the tensions that the relationship between religion and politics aroused. But since an early stage it was realised that this promise would not be met so easily, as the current discussion in various Western democracies on the presence of the religious in public spaces well demonstrates. The difficulties begin straight away in the disappointing self-evidence of the borderline between the ‘public space’ and the ‘private domain’. But they do not end there.
The arrival of democracy as a hegemonic form of government has led to an updating of the issues surrounding the relationship between religion and politics. There are particular aspects of this relationship in a democratic context that need to be articulated with traditional narratives with regard to modernity as ‘secularisation’, and also with the most recent criticisms to which these historical narratives have been subjected. The original promise of democracy consisted in overcoming once and for all the tensions that the relationship between religion and politics aroused. But since an early stage it was realised that this promise would not be met so easily, as the current discussion in various Western democracies on the presence of the religious in public spaces well demonstrates. The difficulties begin straight away in the disappointing self-evidence of the borderline between the ‘public space’ and the ‘private domain’. But they do not end there.
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Democracia Público Privado Secularização Democracy Public Private Secularisation
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MORGADO, Miguel - Público e privado: a religião entre a «saída» e a «entrada». Didaskalia. Lisboa. ISSN 0253-1674. 43:1-2 (2013) 257-283
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa