Konfessionalitet som religiös offentlighet. Kan religionens nya synlighet uttryckas i gamla former?

Abstract

In this article Mikael Lindfelt makes a case for how confessionality can be seen as a way of holding religion visible in our common society without being discriminating to people who do not share the confessional perspective. By critically evaluating concepts as secularity and neutrality he argues for a model of procedurally secular view in society that should not turn into secularism as grounding principle. By putting forward a specific case of non-confessional academic theology acting in close partnership with religious confessions, even within the educational structure, Lindfelt argues for a possibility of an ecumenical perspective regarded as a distinct form of neutrality that holds on to the standards of what the human rights principle of freedom of religion demands.