Understanding: Between belief and unbelief.

The article addresses the issues raised in Charles Taylor's book "A Secular Age" regarding how communities may come to work in normatively secular ways. It examines how believers and non-believers of faith acknowledge their own construals as not shared by everyone and how it can be turned into respect. It tells that for communities to work in a secular setting, secular and religious discourse should be treated as nonoverlapping magisteria. It presents a case where cosmopolitan conversation between secular and religious reason is possible.