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Discuss the relationship between religion and science in modern society. Do they necessarily remain in conflict?

  • UPSC 2026
  • Religion and Society

Religion and science are both systems of knowledge and meaning, but they rest on different foundations: faith and revelation on one side, observation, verification and organised scepticism on the other. Classical sociology expected science to displace religion. Modern evidence shows a more varied relationship, in which conflict is only one possibility.

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  • Four ways of relating the two
  • Where the conflict is real
  • Why conflict is not necessary
  • Limits of reconciliation
  • Conclusion

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