Jean-Marc Ferry

This paper focuses on the question of whether the inclusion of religions in the public sphere is compatible with the neutralist conception of democracies. It argues that it is possible to justify this inclusion, provided that two conditions are satisfied: 1) translation and conversion from the private use of religious logos to the public use of juridical logos; 2) broadening the scope of public reason, in order to pay attention to different standards of argumentation, especially in reference to expressive registers of communication...