This article gives an overview of 4 important lacunae in political liberalism and identifies, in a preliminary fashion, some trends in the literature that can come in for support in filling these blind spots, which prevent political liberalism from a correct assessment of the diverse nature of religious claims. Political liberalism operates with implicit assumptions about religious actors being either ‘liberal’ or ‘fundamentalist’ and ignores a third, in-between group, namely traditionalist religious actors and their claims. After having explained what makes (...) traditionalist religious actors different from liberal and fundamentalist religious actors, the author develops 4 areas in which political liberalism should be pushed further theoretically in order to correctly theorize the challenge which traditional religious actors pose to liberal democracy. These 4 areas are: the context of translation; the politics of exemptions; the multivocality of theology; and the transnational nature of norm-contestation. (shrink)

Colombia es un Estado laico. Esta afirmación, repetida desde la entrada en vigor de la Constitución de 1991, requiere una adecuada conceptualización en perspectiva histórica y en el contexto del régimen jurídico colombiano vigente . En el sistema colombiano el principio de laicidad es inseparable de los principios de igualdad y cooperación. Esta conjunción permite proponer el concepto de laicidad positiva, como expresión de la posición del Estado colombiano ante el fenómeno religioso en sus distintas manifestaciones.