Secularism In India -- A Brief Study - By Kamaluddin Khan By Kamaluddin Khan‚ The challenges of castism‚ communalism and religious fundamentalism‚ involving separatism and violence in India‚ are the major threats to our secular polity. They weaken the working and stability of our secular federal system and militate against the basic principles governing our national life and providing meaning to our new identity. Our national movement was the biggest and the most widespread anti-imperialist movement
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Religions in the Modern World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Holloway‚ D.‚ (2008). The Secular State and The Oxford Union. Retrieved January 4‚ 2013‚ from http://www.church.org.uk/resources/csdetail.asp?csdate=01/02/2008 --(2011). A Judge‚ Secularism‚ Pluralism and Fundamentalism. Retrieved January 04‚ 2013‚ from http://www.church.org.uk/resources/csdetail.asp?csdate=01/03/2011 Kuru‚ A. (2011). Pasif ve Dışlayıcı Laiklik: ABD‚ Fransa ve Türkiye. İstanbul: İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları
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Secularism The world today is filled with a variety of religions. Different religions cause conflict because of the dissimilar beliefs as with secularism. Secularism is the indifference to or rejection or exclusion of religion and religious considerations according to the dictionary. The religious civilization acknowledges secularism as any movement in society directed away from the otherworldliness to life on earth. No matter which way it is defined the main point is that God is excluded from
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Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which knowledge‚ skills‚ and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching‚ training‚ research‚ or simply through auto didacticism Generally‚ it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks‚ feels‚ or acts. Etymologically‚ the word "education" is derived from the Latin ēducātiō (“A breeding‚ a bringing up‚ a rearing") from ēdūcō (“I educate‚ I train”) which is
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secular nation also claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion‚ and claims to avoid privileged treatment for a citizen from a certain religion/non-religion. However‚ unlike America‚ Islam does not separate religion from the state. Secularism in Turkey came after the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. With the country getting down Mustafa Kemal Atatürk led a political and cultural revolution. Turkish modernism went through a reversal of the Islamic Ottoman system and the adoption
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two is that one believes in afterlife and one doesn’t. One believes in the spiritual and God and the other believe in material‚ facts and don’t believe in the spiritual as there is no proof of it. The differences between the two worldviews is that secularism believes that the human person are shaped by interaction with other people and their behaviours and characteristic have been shaped by the world they live not necessary by the interactions with people cause they see no reason for community‚ due
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I. Introduction A. Intro of the Intro 1. Define the Renaissance (“The Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement that not only introduced new ideas such as individualism‚ secularism and humanism‚ but also led to the rediscovery of Roman and Greek culture.”) 2. Set the scene w/ dates‚ places‚ etc (roughly 14th-17th century‚ beginning in Italy then spreading to the north & the rest of Europe) 3. Introduce the idea of how fantastic the art‚ visual and literary‚ were. Segue into the thesis
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The American Enlightenment Occurring throughout the 18th century‚ the American Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in the thirteen American colonies. While the exact duration of the Enlightenment is still unknown‚ during the years roughly between 1765 and 1818‚ institutions for learning developed rapidly as this movement promised to apply scientific reasoning to politics‚ art‚ religion‚ and literature. The American Enlightenment was strongly based off the European Enlightenment
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Uniform Civil Code India is a secular democratic country. Secularism means equal rights to everybody. The rights should not differ on the basis of sex or religion. The fact that India is having different Civil Code for different persons based on their religion does not suite its secular state status. The two major laws that are governing the lives of most of the people of our country is the Hindu and Muslim law (Sharia law). Both these laws have varied approach to civil rights. The marriage
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Does religion still have a place in the society? In our current society‚ we have the various religions that play their part in making it a conducive place for living. We have multiple religions such as Christianity‚ Hinduism‚ Islam‚ Buddhism and the list goes on. These above mentioned religions were once of equal status with the government and the society. In most circumstances the society or the government would sought the advice of their most prominent religion in matters of ethics and even
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