„Religion has returned into consciousness", wrote Thomas Assauer last week in the lead story of DIE ZEIT. He is right: Since several years, in the light of Islamic terror, faith and religion stand on top of political agendas again. The weekly journal took this for cause to launch an introduction series about world religions. To the prelude, chief editor Giovanni di Lorenzo discussed in the Hamburger ethnological museum with five intellectuals about the role of faith and religion in the secularised society.

"Ohne Gott geht es nicht!?" lautete die These und Frage, über die der Journalist Henryk M. Broder, der evangelische Theologieprofessor Friedrich Graf, der Islamwissenschaftler und Schriftsteller Navid Kermani, der katholische Schriftsteller Martin Mosebach und der bekennende Atheist Daniel Cohn-Bendit vor 250 Zuschauern stritten.

Foto: Friedrich Graf, Henryk M. Broder, Martin Mosebach, Giovanni di Lorenzo, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Navid Kermani. (© Die ZEIT)