Visible/Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

alternative citizen media and the public sphere

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Religion in the public sphere: Incentivizing reciprocal deliberative engagement

Commonplace among deliberative theorists is the view that, when defending preferred laws and policies, citizens should appeal only to reasons they expect others reasonably to accept. This view has been challenged on the grounds that it places an undue burden on religious citizens who feel duty-bound to appeal to religious reasons to justify preferred positions. In response, I develop a concepti...

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

New Media, Counter Publicity and the Public Sphere

New media have been widely used by radical groups of both Left and Right to advance their political projects. The aim of this article to provide a theoretical framework, through developing the concepts of public sphere and counter-public sphere, which allows us to understand the growing importance of alternative media in society and to indicate how this framework might generate questions for

Religion and Democracy in the Post-modern World: the Possibility of a “religiously Qualified” Public Sphere