mardi 3 janvier 2017

Religious pasts vs political presents

A volume on religion and modernity published in 2016 does not have a chapter on the Sangh Parivar

RELIGION AND MODERNITY IN INDIA Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Aloka Parasher Sen (Editors) Oxford University Press 323 pages; Rs 950 Human beings live in the present but always carry memories of the past. This fundamental fact of social existence conditions their thinking on tradition and modernity and explains why many reputed modern social philosophers have focused their attention on the problematic relationship between religion, scriptures, rituals and priests and modern systems of knowledge, where every tenet of religious faith has to pass the test of modern scientific ...

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Religious pasts vs political presents

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