Religiously Relevant Disagreement

What distinguishes religious from non-religious disagreements? In current debates, the issue is often dealt with along the following lines: a disagreement D qualifies as religious if, and only if, the proposition under dispute between the parties to D is a religious proposition. In this chapter I argue that this standard account of religious disagreement is problematic in various respects. I then outline and motivate a notion of religious relevance, which allows us to do justice to the fact that there is no neat conceptual or a priori line of demarcation between religious and non-religious discourses.