• Virtues and Vices of Tolerance 

  Vainio, Olli-Pekka (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  In this article, I shall first examine the differing uses and meanings of the concept ‘toleration’, and how most of the uses fail to be instances of genuine toleration. Second, I will consider how it might be possible ...
• ‘What Is a Man If He Has Words But Has No Deeds?’ Some Remarks on the European Convention of Human Rights 

  Slotte, Pamela (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  The article focuses on religious freedom in European human rights discourse, more precisely in the case law of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. It asks about the sort of 'religious person' and notion ...
• Five Arguments against Religious Tolerance Relativism 

  Mellqvist, Clare Ruth (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  This paper puts forward the notion of ‘Religious Tolerance Relativism’ (RTR), which is thought to help in coming to understand the diversity of religions. In short, RTR aims at the proper treatment of one’s fellows, and ...
• Religious Arguments in the Public Sphere: Comparing Habermas with Rawls 

  Loobuyck, Patrick; Rummens, Stefan (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  In the discussion about the role of religious reasons in the public sphere, Habermas has developed a middle-ground position defined by his institutional translation proviso. After a presentation of Habermas’s postsecular ...
• Levinas’ Challenge to Abstract Law: Politics as Totality and Religion as Motivation for the Truly Just 

  Kirkpatrick, Kate (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  This paper explores the tension between the ethical and the political in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, with a particular focus on the domain of law. Some philosophers conclude that Levinas’ ethics constitute a ...
• Brian Barry’s Egalitarian Liberalism as an Inspiring Source for a Fair Church-State System, as Illustrated by the Belgian Case 

  Franken, Leni (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  Although the Belgian system is, as many European church-state policies, a form of accommodation, it is at the same time a system of separation. We can, using Modood’s terminology, describe the Belgian church-state relationship ...
• One Notion of Religious Truth? Hilary Putnam’s Conceptual Truth and the Justification of Religious Propositions 

  Brunsveld, Niek (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  This article explores and gives a preliminary answer to the question whether, from a particular pragmatic pluralist perspective, the notion of truth can have any bearing on religious propositions in today’s secularised ...
• Secular State, Religious Nation? American ‘Civil Religion’ and the Paradox of Democratic Belonging 

  Amesbury, Richard (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  One way that Americans have understood themselves collectively is in terms of the category ‘religion.’ Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s reading of the American Declaration of Independence, I argue that the quest for ...
• The Dialectics of Cultural Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Response to Anne Sofie Roald and Theo W.A. de Wit 

  Jonkers, Peter (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  Cultural (including religious) identity can be defined as a symbolic reality, implying that it is vague, fluid and impossible to delineate sharply, but at the same time essential. Although it comprises a lot of contingent ...
• After Multiculturalism: Response to Anne Sofie Roald 

  Wit, Theo W.A. de (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  Anne Sofie Roald’s critical approach to multiculturalists’ discourse is in many aspects justified. The ‘strong’ version of multiculturalism gets stuck in strange paradoxes: in the name of ‘respect’ and ‘toler-ance’ I defend ...
• Multiculturalism and Pluralism in Secular Society: Individual or Collective Rights? 

  Roald, Anne Sofie (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  This paper discusses multiculturalism in view of collectivistic cultural structures in immigrant communities. Women in religious minority communities are ruled according to collectivistic structures as it comes to ...
• Freedom of Religion as the Foundation of Freedom and as the Basis of Human Rights: Response to Roger Trigg 

  Gräb-Schmidt, Elisabeth (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  Religious Freedom is meant to refer to the systematic relation of freedom, tolerance and truth that shapes and qualifies all three con-cepts and has pluralism as a logical and systematic consequence of a religious freedom ...
• Freedom of Religion 

  Trigg, Roger (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  Are religious views relevant to our judgments about the common good, or should religion be expelled from public life? The impulses that constitute religion are deeply rooted in human nature. Whatev-er the difficulties of ...
• Blasphemy, Offence, and Hate Speech: Response to Henk Vroom 

  Leirvik, Oddbjorn (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  The article discusses the relation between legal restrictions and moral responsibility in the question of blasphemy and offence. The first part observes some historical developments in relevant legislation, mostly using ...
• On Blasphemy: An Analysis 

  Vroom, Henk (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  This contribution deals with two questions: a) what is blasphemy and what is the difference between blasphemy and discrimination?, and b) does the state have responsibilities to protect citizens against blasphemy? Although ...
• Religion and Law: Response to Michael Moxter 

  Clark, Stephen R.L. (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  I outline and examine Prof Moxter’s thesis, that State Law, to be effective, must not be obeyed only from fear of punishment, but needs the habits of reverence and obedience that may be learnt within religious sects, ...
• Religion and the Legal Sphere 

  Moxter, Michael (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  The article discusses the role of, and the political debate on, religion in the legal sphere by, first of all, reflecting on the normative order of German religious constitutional law (Religionsverfassungsrecht). Religious ...
• Does Forgiveness Violate Justice? 

  Wolterstorff, Nicholas (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)

  A charge commonly lodged against forgiveness is that it violates justice. My essay is an evaluation of this charge. Almost always the charge is developed by assuming that forgiveness requires foregoing punishment of the ...
• Introduction 

  Trigg, Roger (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)
• Reply to de Maeseneer 

  Hemming, Laurence Paul (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005)

  I am indebted to Yves De Maeseneer in the care with which he has brought out the entirely negative intentions of Postmodernity’s Transcending. I want to address two matters in my reply: first to comment on his raising ...

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