"According to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, in his magisterial book on the rise of secularism in the West A Secular Age (2007), there are three ways of thinking about secularism"
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"One is the separation of church and state—keeping religious authorities and political authorities separate"
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"This has been a part of most religious traditions from biblical times—enunciated by the saying attributed to Jesus when responding whether the faithful should pay the Roman tax: "
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“render under Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and under God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21).
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"The second kind of secularism is the removal of religious elements from public life and creating a kind of public culture to replace it"
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"And the third kind of secularism is the emergence of the secular person—people who think of their own core values and identities as having nothing to do with those traditionally expressed through religion"
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"It is these latter two kinds of secularism—secular public culture and the secular person that are relatively new in human history"
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"They are emblematic of the European and American West from the eighteenth century to the present, beginning with the Enlightenment, which ushered in a new way of thinking about religion"
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What Caesar things What God things for Hindus? For us all three kinds of secularism above are new.
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Tolerance of multiple diversities never needed any form of Secularism as far as the Indian mind is concerned. None of the above three forms of it atleast! It is innate in our minds!
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Reference:
The Imagined War between Secularism and Religion
Mark Juergensmeyer
The Oxford Handbook of Secularism
Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook
The Imagined War between Secularism and Religion
Mark Juergensmeyer
The Oxford Handbook of Secularism
Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook
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