ABSTRACT
Religion is first and foremost not a “view of life,” but rather a “way of life.” In this respect, it is not primarily about a Weltanschauung, i.e., a particular epistemological claim on or a particular view of reality, but fundamentally about a praxis of life. It is in this sense that the principle of the theological theory of action formulated by Helmut Peukert is to be taken: “Faith is itself a practice that, as a practice, asserts God for othersin communicative action and attempts to confirm this assertion in action.”1 To what extent this claim, formulated from a theological perspective, holds religio-theoretically, and if and to what extent it can be made fruitful for the understanding of religion-thus to what extent religion can be understood as communicative praxis-will be discussed in this chapter.
