Dmitry Uzlaner The Dialogue of Science and Religion from the Perspective of Contemporary Theories of Democracy Dmitry Uzlaner - Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, Associate Professor of Chair of State-Confessional Relations, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). uzlanerda@gmail.com This article deals with the dialogue between science and religion through the lens of contemporary theories of democracy. Can religion, along with science, make valuable contributions to the public debate? Should scientific community respect this contribution, and if yes, then why? The article analyzes the two general considerations in favor of religious contributions. One is normative, connected with contemporary theories of democracy. Another one is epistemological, which, in turn, exists in two versions: weak or "modern", represented by Jurgen Habermas and implying the necessity of "translation" of religious contribution into the language of universal secular rationality; and "strong" or postmodern, implying epistemological equalization of religion and science. Then the article considers concrete historical details of Russian culture (most importantly, its internal binary oppositions), which stipulate the social projection of the dialogue between science and religion in the Russian context. Keywords: religion and science, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, public religion, postsecular society, deliberative democracy. В ЦЕНТРЕ внимания данной статьи - проблема диалога науки и религии. При этом нас не интересует стандартный ракурс этой проблемы: например, академические или околоакадемические дискуссии по частным вопросам, будь то статус теологии в системе высшего образования или же спор креационистов с эволюционистами. Вместо этого нас интересует обществен- Узланер Д. Диалог науки и религии: взгляд с позиций современных теорий демократии // Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2015. N 1 (33). ... Read more