The modern state always prefers to deal with religious ideologies rather than faiths. Ideology, on the other hand, means “a sub-national, national or cross-national identifier of populations contesting for or protecting non-religious, usually political or socio-economic, interests”.
Faith means “a way of life, a tradition which is definitionally non-monolithic and operationally plural”. The first is that each religion in South Asia has split into two: faith and ideology. To provide the preface, four trends visible in South Asia in recent times must first be described. This hegemonic language of secularism has now become a cover for the new forms of religious violence. The paper aims to provide “a political preface to the recovery of … religious tolerance from the hegemonic language of secularism”.
Veena Das (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990), 69–93.Īshis Nandy, “The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance,” Alternatives 13, no. If you need a copy of the text, want to give a suggestion, or simply wish to say hi!, mail me at reading! CATEGORIESĪshis Nandy, “The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance,” in Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia, ed. Unless otherwise stated (at the beginning of the post), sections in monotype will be skippable extracts, either from the text being summarised or from some other relevant text (in which case proper citations will be included). Though I try to reproduce all the main ideas and most of the ideas accurately in these summaries, you must nevertheless read with caution and suspicion. Remember that these summaries are made by a clueless student. Reading these summaries or, more accurately, paraphrases is not a substitute for reading the actual texts. This is a limitation of the theme I am using and despite this irritating lack, I am in no mood to change it. (For better results, use the search terms culled from the tag cloud or menu.) This is because if you use the latter two, you'll get walls of texts showing the full articles instead of the brief excerpts/summaries of those articles. Protip: If you wish to navigate the site, use the search function instead of the menu or the tag cloud. If you are new, please read this before proceeding.
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