THE POLITICS OF SECULARIZATION AND ITS MORAL DISCONTENTS/DISENCHANTMENTS
The paper seeks to demonstrate how a political-philosophical idea became a worldwide movement, a driving ideology, that has had a formidably deconstructive impact on significant religious practices of societies wedded to traditional patterns of culture, law and morality. But this Enlightenment epist...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2013
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2013, Volume: 38, Issue: 3, Pages: 231-252 |
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Secularity
B Post-Colonial B PseudoSecularism B Taylor B Personal Law B Hindus B Muslim B Secularism B Constitution B India |
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| Summary: | The paper seeks to demonstrate how a political-philosophical idea became a worldwide movement, a driving ideology, that has had a formidably deconstructive impact on significant religious practices of societies wedded to traditional patterns of culture, law and morality. But this Enlightenment epistemé has also come increasingly under scrutiny for its shortcomings in recognizing the moral basis of certain cultural patterns religious predilections that people are increasingly not prepared to abandon altogether. From disenchantments (of the sacred and religionmoral proclivities in the public spheres, with some exemptions in the private sphere, such as ‘Personal Law’ in British India and colonial Turkey) we now have with the so-called ‘return of religion in the Western world’ moved to a situation of discontentment with the rampant secularization of societies in the wake of modernity and decolonisation. After engaging with Charles Taylor’s re-configuration of his challenging thesis of secularity, the paper moves to the Indian scenario and its confused handling of secularism in our post-colonial times. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
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