Post-secular philosophy. Between theory and ideology

Abstract

This text is devoted to showing that from the point of view of the tasks of science dealing with the description and explanation of the different aspects of religion, the post secular turn is only apparent. Its ostensi­ bleness lies in the fact that the program articulated by post-secular phi­ losophers suffers from a number of defects. Their accumulation leads to the conclusion that the post secular paradigm has never existed even as the seed of a theory of religious phenomena, but it has some of the characteristics of an ideology.
This article reconstructs subjects key philosophical positions asso­ ciated with the post secular turn (Philip Blond, Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo, Jürgen Habermas) to critical analysis in an effort to extract the relevant properties of post secular philosophy to indicate major de­ ficiencies. Next, I deal with the most important issue emerging from this analysis, namely, the question adopted by the post secular philoso­ phers of religion. In the last part I formulate conclusions regarding the applicability of post secular philosophy as a theoretical tool explaining the situation of religion in the post-modern world.