This paper examines the usage of English terms related to the important religious concepts of "spirituality" and "secularism" in and around modern India, employing the simple DH (Digital Humanities) approach of
Secularism is a western ideology. The concept of religion as opposed to that of the nation state may seem clear. However, the doctrinal separation of “church” from state, in practical terms, is a different matter. Robert Bellah, in his essay “Civil Religion in America” had this to say...
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That should be a no-brainer. Secular means worldly, or of this world, and it is clear in the Bible and every other scripture that to choose eternal life is to resist worldly temptations, which include illicit pleasures, vain concern for honors, a complacent sense of one’s own self-suffic...
Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of ...
Rather than take up a position (which I do in my manifesto a little later), in this introduction I seek to map out some of the issues at stake. The issues fall into two groups: those that swirl around the terms secularism and secularization, and then those that explore the nature of ...