Far from being a mere vestige of the past, religion continues to be, even in a post-modern world, an essential component of a culturally vibrant society. Moreover, the latest world-wide social research shows that religion and democracy far from being mutually exclusive, can in fact co-exist and support each other. Please see:
Religion and the secular state : a revisiting- 1st Part -
by Emanuel L. Paparella
http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/articles_philo/9_240604_1.htm
and
Religion, science and democracy : Integral Parts of European Culture
Emanuel L. Paparella
http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/articles_philo/9_240304_1.htm
Dangerous Religion
George W. Bush's theology of empire.
by Jim Wallis
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0309&article=030910
Religion and the secular state : a revisiting- 1st Part -
by Emanuel L. Paparella
http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/articles_philo/9_240604_1.htm
and
Religion, science and democracy : Integral Parts of European Culture
Emanuel L. Paparella
http://www.newropeans-magazine.org/articles_philo/9_240304_1.htm
Dangerous Religion
George W. Bush's theology of empire.
by Jim Wallis
http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0309&article=030910