@article{Spiegel2022,
  author    = {Spiegel, Thomas Jussuf},
  title     = {Liberal naturalism without reenchantment},
  series = {European journal for philosophy of religion},
  volume    = {14},
  journal   = {European journal for philosophy of religion},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {University of Innsbruck},
  address   = {Innsbruck},
  issn      = {1689-8311},
  doi       = {10.24204/EJPR.2022.3350},
  pages     = {207 -- 229},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {There is a close conceptual relation between the notions of religious disenchantment and scientific naturalism. One way of resisting philosophical and cultural implications of the scientific image and the subsequent process of disenchantment can be found in attempts at sketching a reenchanted worldview. The main issue of accounts of reenchantment can be a rejection of scientific results in a way that flies in the face of good reason. Opposed to such reenchantment is scientific naturalism which implies an entirely disenchanted worldview. However, one of the main problems of scientific naturalism are placement problems. A reenchanted worldview does have the conceptual resources to avoid placement problems, yet seems to throw out the baby (a reasonable appeal to science as an authority) with the bathwater (placement problems). A dilemma results: the Scylla of an undesirable scientific naturalism and the Charybdis of a rampant, seemingly prescientific reenchanted worldview. In this article I argue that there is a safe middle passage between these two options, i.e. the recently proposed liberal naturalism which allows for a moderate normative reenchantment. Liberal naturalism lets us have it both ways: avoiding the placement problems while retaining a necessary and reasonable adherence to science, thereby avoiding both an all-too restrictive scientific naturalism.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Homolka2017,
  author    = {Homolka, Walter},
  title     = {Jewish theology in Germany},
  series = {Society},
  volume    = {54},
  journal   = {Society},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0147-2011},
  doi       = {10.1007/s12115-017-0164-3},
  pages     = {426 -- 431},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {How often do secular and religious discourses communicate and interrelate at points where they intersect in society? When the Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums) evolved at the beginning of the nineteenth century, it intended, through both theological and secular studies, to demonstrate the general value of Jewish culture and civilization. Although denied a place in the public university system until after the Shoah, Jewish Studies departments have since been established at various German universities, and, in 2013, the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam was opened as the first Jewish divinity school in the history of the German university system. With this, what was once a utopian dream became a reality, and both branches of the Science of Judaism, religious and secular, became undisputed parts of the German academic scene, using similar tools for differing aims. Two prime examples of the intersection of the secular and religious in Germany today are the proliferation of divinity schools at state universities, on the one hand, and the development of military chaplaincy in the armed forces, on the other. Both of these, through contractual agreements, aim to regulate and facilitate religious pluralism within a secular state. While the one has already begun to take place, the other is currently under discussion.},
  language  = {en}
}