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Dec
Speech On Secularism In Our Multi Religious Society. Some religious leaders will attempt to convince us that secularism means becoming anti-religion which is far from the truth. Secularism plays a pivotal role in a multi-religious society like India. It is clear that ones interpretation of the interface between religion and the secular society can determine the outcome of a claim of discrimination on the basis of creed. Thus religion is only a purely personal matter.
It also assumes that public education and state affairs should be religion-less. A multi-faith approach should be avoided. In these resources students will contrast and critique different viewpoints on the role of secularism and religion in society. The concept of secularism holds the answer which could be cornerstone of an egalitarian forward-looking society with religious pluralism full civil liberties and equal opportunities. Secularism is the beliefideology that religion and religious considerations should be deliberately kept out from temporal affairs. 2In a country like India where people of diverse religion reside secularism is essential because it provides freedom to all the people to profess and preach the religious faiths of their choice without any hindrance.
Secularization is a term used by sociologists to refer to a process by which the overarching and transcendent religious system of old is reduced in modern functionally differentiated societies to a subsystem alongside other subsystems losing in this process its overarching claims over these other subsystems.
They do so to protect their loss of influence. What does it mean to describe our society as secular. It provides full freedom to all religions and tolerance of all religions. Secularization according to Peter Berger is the process by which sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious. Religious and Secular Collaborations. The UK is a secularised society which upholds freedom of and from religion.