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Religious pasts vs political presents

A volume on religion and modernity published in 2016 does not have a chapter on the Sangh Parivar

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C P Bhambhri
RELIGION AND MODERNITY IN INDIA
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Aloka Parasher Sen (Editors)
Oxford University Press
323 pages; Rs 950

Human beings live in the present but always carry memories of the past. This fundamental fact of social existence conditions their thinking on tradition and modernity and explains why many reputed modern social philosophers have focused their attention on the problematic relationship between religion, scriptures, rituals and priests and modern systems of knowledge, where every tenet of religious faith has to pass the test of modern scientific inquiry. This is the rationale for this edited volume in which individual scholars have attempted to

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