ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will discuss the publicness of religion. When I speak of the “public” aspect of religion, in contrast to the inner spiritual life of religious believers, I mean religion’s inuence and participation in cultural systems and public life, including political issues, beyond the level of private life. Although there may be other forms of public life, when I discuss the public dimension of religion here, I mainly refer to two arenas of civil society and public political culture.
