"In fact, secularization was the other side of the rise and growth of nation-states and modern imperialisms which required autonomy (and sovereignty) of state-power and increasing extension of its scope and jurisdiction"
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"Consequently, the religious realm and its authority progressively shrank and got confined to the "inner" and private dimensions of man's life"
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"Political power ceased to be the temporal arm of the Church and prepared to assume, eventually, full sovereignty over the public realm and the "outer" life of man.
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"However, the secular idea and the process of secularization cannot, and did not, stop there: "
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"the logic of the idea requires that both the "outer" and the "inner" life of man, both the public and private realms be ultimately secularized, that is, cut loose from their divine, transhuman, absolute Center"
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"A major concern of this essay is to show that once the idea is accepted and the process started, their dialectic and progress cannot be stopped midway or at will"
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"Proceeding from this separation between the "inner" and the "outer" life of man, which carries within it the possibility of the autonomy of each, the next most significant development is recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary .."
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"in the following definition of secularism which it dates in 1851:"
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"The doctrine that morality should be based on regard to the well-being of mankind in the present life, to the exclusion of all considerations drawn from belief in God or a future state." The definition reflects the thought of a remarkable man George Jacob Holyoake"
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From Prof AK Saran's "On the theories of Secularism and Modernization"
As a people we don't have great understanding of both Tradition and Secularism. Hence we continue on this slippery slope.
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As a people we don't have great understanding of both Tradition and Secularism. Hence we continue on this slippery slope.
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