Lecture 2006: Beyond the seperation between church and state?
There are questions concerning the relationship between religion/ideology and citizenship and democracy.
Does the recent rediscovery of religion by administrators and politicians in the context of social bonding and cohesion not also carry dangers? Will it not quickly lead to an instrumental incorporation into government policy of a domain that is itself best served by a strict separation between State and Church? And if we are talking about the separation of Church and State, do we then mean a rigid normative principle which stands in the way of an easy relationship between religion and the public domain? Or has a more easy relationship become possible precisely just because of that separation of church and state?