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Discuss the challenges thrown by religious revivalism to a secular nation-state.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Religion and Society

A secular nation-state grounds its legitimacy in citizenship rather than faith. It separates religious authority from state power and treats all believers and non-believers as equals. Religious revivalism, the public reassertion of faith and religious identity, contests each of these principles. Mark Juergensmeyer (The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, 1993) described…

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