Question

Essay on the Concept of Civil Religion in India (521 Words)

Answer 1

Civil Religion has been defined as “the religious or quasi-religious regard for certain civic values and traditions found recurrently in the history of the political states”. This regard for the civic values and traditions of the political state is expressed through special festivals, rituals, creeds and dogmas which honor great personages and events of the past.

These persons, such as freedom fighters and social and political reformers and eminent Presidents like Abraham Lincoln are some of these who have played a major role in the socio-political history of their society. The same is true about the events of great significance to the state and society.