In this article, I argue that Habermas’s genealogical approach to modern reason and methodological agnosticism can lead us to a better understanding of the role of religion in our societies. I underline the relevance of Habermas’s awareness that ‘something is missing’ when we take faith out of modernity and consider the truths of philosophical reason to be infallible. Habermas succeeds in highlighting the complexity of the modern relationship between the religious and the secular domains, a relationship that is not merely epistemic, but also embodied in various practical relationships between religious and secular citizens. On this basis, and in the light of Habermas’s idea of modernity as an unfinished project, I argue that religion can be interpreted as a dimension allied to political modernity and democracy as well.

在本文中，我认为哈贝马斯对现代理性和方法论不可知论的谱系方法可以引导我们更好地理解宗教在我们社会中的作用。我强调了当我们从现代性中取出信仰并认为哲学理性的真理是绝对正确的时，哈贝马斯的意识“缺少某些东西”的相关性。哈贝马斯成功地突出了宗教与世俗领域之间现代关系的复杂性，这种关系不仅是认识论的，而且还体现在宗教与世俗公民之间的各种实际关系中。在此基础上，并鉴于哈贝马斯将现代性视为未完成项目的观点，我认为宗教也可以被解释为与政治现代性和民主相关联的一个维度。