Since the last decade of the twentieth century, there has been talk of a return of religion in Western societies ? the very societies that were regarded by many people as undergoing an irreversible process of secularization. Paul Ricoeur?s philosophical writings on religion are contemporaneous with this movement of secularization and return, while at he same time his work complicates the schema. In Ricoeur?s view, religion is part of the universe of convictions in which subjects live concretely, convictions that deserve to be heard and placed under the lights of argumentation and conviction. For Ricoeur, religion is the other of philosophy, the non-philosophical par excellence. He did not write a systematic philosophy of religion, but he wrote extensively about religion as a meeting place for language and conviction. The essays in this volume, written between 1953 and 2003, attest...
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