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Comment: Cultural secularization.

  • UPSC 1994
  • 20 marks
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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Cultural secularisation is the process by which religious meanings lose authority over how a society thinks, celebrates and decides — a sociological process, not the normative doctrine of secularism. In comparative politics the term belongs to Gabriel A. Almond and G. Bingham Powell (Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach, 1966), who paired it with structural differentiation…

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  • The desecularisation critique
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