englischThis study discusses the historical and (power-) political backgrounds as well as the legally and theologically questionable justification of the historically unique constitutional amendment with which the Pakistani parliament excommunicated Ahmadi Muslims from Islam—a decision wholly at [...]

englischThis book shows under which conditions religious reasoning for generally binding norms can be legitimately introduced into democratic decision-making, even if societies are religiously diverse and pluralistic. To this end, the philosophical and social scientific discussion on this subject, [...]

englischThis study focuses on addressing the question of how a form of business ethics which not only stems from the internal structure of Islamic intellectual history but which also relates to today’s globalised societies be conceived. Using the approaches of Karl Homann and Peter Ulrich as a [...]

Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit stehen die Begriffe der Fremdheit, Religion, Kultur und Toleranz als Gegenstände der rechtlichen Analyse des Umgangs mit dem Phänomen religiös-kultureller Fremdheit. Fremdheit jedweder Art stellt seit jeher, spätestens jedoch mit dem verstärkten Auftauchen „fremder“ [...]

englischIs religion compatible with enlightenment, and what role does theology play in this issue? Kant’s ‘Streit der Fakultäten’ (Contest of the Faculties) comes to the conclusion that the eternal debate about religion does not necessarily have to be an obstacle to enlightenment, but that its [...]

englischHow to deal with religion in the public discourse? In a post-secular society, this question has to be negotiated again. The classical answer has been given by John Rawls' political liberalism: Excluding religious beliefs from the public political arena and assigning it to the private sphere [...]

Sind religiöse Bürger moralisch darin gerechtfertigt, bei der öffentlichen Diskussion politischer Fragen auf ihre religiösen Überzeugungen zu rekurrieren, oder widersprechen sie damit nicht vielmehr einem Ideal staatsbürgerlicher Tugend in säkularen Demokratien? Diese Frage wird in der normativen [...]