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Give your comments on the growth of religious revivalism in the present-day context.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Religion and Society

Religious revivalism is the renewal of faith, ritual and religious identity within an existing tradition, often as a mass, emotional and public upsurge. Classical secularisation theory expected religion to fade with modernity. The present-day world shows the opposite: religion has returned to public life, though in new forms.

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