Lived religion in a plural society: a resource or liability

• Authors: Kaul Ashok , Adhikary Chitaranjan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Recently there is a renewed academic interest in religion bringing it back on the global political agenda. Religion in the post modern global order is fast emerging as a new organizing principle in the face of multi-polarity, trans-nationality and sweeping pluralisation of peoples. Contrary to the secularist self believe, the modern has failed to take over the tradition including religion. Rather a logical opposite seems to be happening, questioning the very presumptions of the modernity project. The present paper is a narrative on this creative tension in the religious modern and post modern. The paper is crafted into four sections. First section seeks to pin down the genesis of “religious” in the search for social order and consciousness beyond the material world. Second section deals with the unfolding of enlightenment project and its manifest consequence with the birth of secularism master theory. Third section delves deep into the immediate Indian religious lived experiences under foreign rule up to the sweeping spell of globalisation. Fourth and last part of the essay makes a case for universality of a multicultural world and religious secularism.

Keywords

EN

multiculturalism; modernity; secularism; information revolution; capitalism; Hinduism; decentring; sociology of religion; religions in India

PL

multikulturalizm; wielokulturowość; modernism; sekularyzm; rewolucja informacyjnm; kapitalizm; hinduizm; decentralizacja religii

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie, Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii
• Journal: ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-102

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Kaul Ashok

• Banaras Hindu University

author

Adhikary Chitaranjan

• Banaras Hindu University