American Scholars Return to Studying Religion - A Review

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Theology - Comparative Religion Studies, grade: 15/20, University Hassan II. Casablanca, course: Religion in America, language: English, abstract: Jurgen Habermas, talking about John Rawls, once said "e;[that the latter] did posterity a great service in thinking at an early date about the political role of religion."e; (2008:20). Today, the same can be, and in many ways surely is, said about religion in academia, or to paraphrase Habermas about the political role of religion in the academic sphere. It was once believed, that the university is a very, if not the most, secularized space in American society. This idee recue is now challenged by many scholars, and according to Schmalzbauer and Mahoney (2008: 1) "e;a new story needs to be told about religion in the academy"e;.