CHALLENGES TO OUR CULTURAL PRACTICES

 UPSC GS MAINS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

What are the challenges to our cultural practices in name of secularism.




An equally important dimension of secularism is its opposition to intra-religious domination.

As secularism is opposed to all forms of institutionalized religious domination, its challenges are not merely interreligious but also intrareligious domination. It is often argued that secularism in anti-religious. Secularism is against institutionalized religious domination. This is not the same as being anti-religious. Similarly it has been argued by some that it threatens religious identity. Secularism provides religious freedom and equality. Hence, it clearly protects religious identity rather than to threatens it. Of course, it does undermine some form of religious identity: those who are dogmatic, violent, fanatical, exclusivist and those who foster hatred of other religions.

Our political leaders have become helpless prisoners of electoral politics and vote arithmetic. Their fast concern has been to create favorable vote banks and vote combinations. According to their understanding, Muslim constitute the biggest vote block as they generally vote as a religious community while the Hindu consciousness at political level gets fragmented along caste, linguistic and regional lines. And, therefore, these politicians, under the cover secularism try to appeal to the religious sentiments of the Muslim by raising the bogey of 'majority communalism' and 'Hindu Chauvinism' etc. Their secularism has always been negative in character.

Indian secularism is a positive concept, taking along and encouraging all the cultural practices while instilling a scientific temper against superstitions and harmful practices.


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