Embodied Reasons in the Public Sphere : The Example of the Hijab
Faculty/Professorship: | Systematic Theology |
Author(s): | Wabel, Thomas |
Publisher Information: | Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität |
Year of publication: | 2023 |
Pages: | 499-512 |
Source/Other editions: | Studies in Christian Ethics, 32 (2019), 4, S. 499-512 . - ISSN: 1745-5235 |
is version of: | 10.1177/0953946819868095 |
Year of first publication: | 2019 |
Language(s): | English |
Licence: | German Act on Copyright |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-587206 |
Abstract: | In public debates on moral or political issues between participants from different religious backgrounds, liberal and secular thinkers like John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas recommend to restrict oneself to free-standing reasons that are independent of their religious, social or cultural origin. Following German philosopher Matthias Jung, however, I argue that such reasons fall short of describing the relevance of the issue in question for the adherents of a specific religion or worldview. Referring to the debates in several European countries about the hijab, I am showing how a deeper understanding of reasons as embodied in social practices and as embodied in individual biographies can help to disentangle such debates and to facilitate a dialogue on these issues. |
GND Keywords: | Deutschland; Verschleierung; Gesellschaftsleben; Öffentlichkeit; Moral |
Keywords: | Moral reasoning, embodiment, hijab, veiling |
DDC Classification: | 200 Religion 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
RVK Classification: | BW 60600 |
Type: | Article |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/58720 |
Release Date: | 30. March 2023 |
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