The God Market by Meera Nanda

Author:Meera Nanda
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788184002676
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

Economic globalization and neo-liberal reforms have created the material and ideological conditions in which a popular and ritualistic Hindu religiosity is growing. The three-sided partnership between the state, the temples, and the corporate interests is working in harmony to promote Hinduism in the public sphere. Popular religiosity, in turn, is being directed into a mass ideology of Hindu supremacy and Hindu nationalism.

This trend is a symptom of a deeper, more fundamental malaise, namely, the failure of secularism. For all its professions of secularism, the Indian state has developed neither a stance of equal indifference, nor of equal respect, for all the many religions of India. It has instead treated Hinduism, the religion of the majority, as the civic religion of the Indian nation itself. The result is a deep and widespread Hinduization of the public sphere, which is only growing under the conditions of globalization.

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