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DESCRIPTION:Podiumsdiskussion im theaterforum kreuzbergDoes Luther still ma
 tter? Religious conscience and individual liberty in the 21. centuryPanel 
 DebateOn 31 October 1517\, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 the
 ses to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg\, unwittingly starting 
 a process that would in great parts shape Europe as we know it today. It i
 s an oft-noted irony that the Reformation paved the way for secular modern
 ity\, despite the intentions of its leaders. But recent developments seem 
 to suggest a reaction against both modernity and many of the core values c
 losely associated with the Reformation itself. For example\, critics today
  seem more likely to assert the view that the Reformation divided Europe a
 nd caused countless religious wars than to celebrate a legacy of religious
  toleration. As fears over hate speech have grown and new laws have been i
 ntroduced to curb what people can say\, Luther?s violent language against 
 Turks and Jews is more talked about than protecting freedom of speech for 
 all. Some commentators have even placed battles on the football terraces o
 f northern Europe and anti-immigrant protests by the AfD in eastern German
 y in the tradition of religious sectarianism that they say is a legacy of 
 the Reformation. Ironically\, today it is often immigrants who care more a
 bout religion and\, by implication\, safeguarding religious conscience. Me
 anwhile those that we might expect to celebrate the legacy of Luther are t
 oday often found advocating bans on the burqa and controls on religious at
 tire.One consequence is that the official celebrations of the Reformation 
 have been so ecumenical and open that they have been accused of verging on
  the banal. Are the celebrations symptomatic of a society that no longer b
 elieves in the struggle for truth and convictions? Or do they show that Eu
 rope has learnt its lesson and finally overcome religious sectarianism? Is
  there a message in the reformation that relates to contemporary expressio
 ns of individual faith ? such as the Muslim headscarf\, or even the burqa?
  The reformation amounted to far more than Luther?s 95 theses\, as the fam
 ous discourse on free will between Martin Luther and Erasmus of Rotterdam 
 shows. So in our ?multicultural? times what can we learn by reflecting on 
 the Reformation? What does individual conscience and free will mean today 
 and what value should we accord to them? Panel: ? Professor Joe Friggieri\
 ,professor of philosophy\, University of Malta\; poet\, playwright and the
 atre director ? Pauline Hadaway\, writer and researcher\; author\, Re-imag
 ining Titanic\, re-imaging Belfast and Policing the Public Gaze? Alan Pose
 ner\, former opinion editor\, Die Welt\; author\, Benedict's Crusade: The 
 Attack of the Vatican on Modern Society? Dr Andreas Rauhut\, pastor in tra
 ining\, protestant church Berlin-Brandenburg\; research associate Universi
 ty of Johannesburg\, Department of Philosophy\n\nViel Spass wünscht Gratis-in-B
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SUMMARY:Does Luther still matter?
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