摘要：Recently there has been renewed academic interest in religion that brings it back into the globalpolitical agenda. Religion in the post modern global order is fast emerging as a new organisingprinciple in the face of multi-polarity, trans-nationality and sweeping pluralisation of peoples.Contrary to the secularist self-belief, the modern context has failed to take over the traditionincluding religion. Instead, a logical opposite seems to be happening, questioning the verypresumptions of the modernity project. The present paper is a narrative on this creative tensionin the religious modern and postmodern perspective. The paper is crafted into four sections.The first section seeks to pin down the genesis of “religious” in the search for social order andconsciousness beyond the material world. The second section deals with the unfolding of theenlightenment project and its manifest consequence with the birth of secularism master theory.The third section delves deep into the immediate Indian religious lived experiences underforeign rule up to the sweeping spell of globalisation. The fourth and the final part of the essaymakes a case for universality of a multicultural world and religious secularism.
关键词：multiculturalism; modernity; secularism; information revolution; capitalism; Hinduism;decentring; sociology of religion; religions in India
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