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Making Sense of Gandhi's Secularism

Author(s) Biswajit Ghosh
Country India
Abstract This article is an attempt to re-examine the M K Gandhi’s secularism. The key problem with which I am concerned here is: how did Gandhi’s religion and spirituality deal with the communal problems to the secular end in Indian society, which is essentially multi-religious one. Whereas secularism makes a wall between state and religion Gandhi didn’t believe in making such wall of distinction between them, rather he believed in putting religion into politics to promote its values. Of course, his religion is not any traditional religion, like Christianity, rather such a ‘religion’ which underlies all religions, embraces morality and spirituality. Through spiritual activities and thoughts he searches for a secular end all through his life. Here I like to examine how he understands religion as morality and spirituality and puts it into politics. I also wish to raise some critical issues on his interpretation of secularism. In the conclusion, I like to show that his spiritual secularism is different from religious fundamentalism, and also that spiritual secularization may be the royal road to minimize communal tensions in our multi-religious country.
Keywords Secularism, Spiritualism (Ādhyatmavāda), Communalism, Materialism, Pragmatism, Dharma, Dayādharma, Nehruism, Denominationalism.
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 4, Issue 5, September-October 2022
Published On 2022-10-28
Cite This Making Sense of Gandhi's Secularism - Biswajit Ghosh - IJFMR Volume 4, Issue 5, September-October 2022.
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