Özet:

Today, in multicultural, multi-democratic societies, religious-democratic relations, collective demands of religious groups, the inclusion of religious opinions and arguments in the public sphere, how to express in the public sphere, the framework of religious identity and membership, religion, conscience and freedom of expression are controversial issues. Based on the assumption that the theoretical approaches to citizenship will provide an important framework in the resolution of religious issues on the agenda, this article deals with these issues in the context of John Rawls’ political liberalism and the concept of liberal citizenship. John Rawls’ political liberalism approach, which is the elements of the political justice concept, the social cooperation thought, the sense of reasonability, the starting state, the unconsciousness, the concepts of interconnection and the public mind thought, the citizenship concept that arises within the framework of the analysis of how citizens with different religious, philosophical, moral doctrines will exist together in a fair, free and equal way, and the criticism addressed to him, the responses of the religious conflicts and the participation of the religious arguments in the political debate.

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