Question

Examine the nexus between religion and politics of the state.

Answer 1

Some instances involving relationship between religion and politics will include:Effort to prove supremacy of one's religion over all other religions and victimizing those who do not belong to the majority communityInciting communal violencePolitical mobilization on religious lines by using scared symbols, religious leadersand emotional appealQuest of separate state by those belonging to the minority communities who often resort to violence for the same

Answer 2

Despite the popular slogan "Our religion is politics and politics is our religion", many of our youth take a negative attitude towards politics. What is our view on this? Actually, youth do not run away from politics per se, but rather from politics of a specific nature, or from difficult political situations, or from a political leadership which has none of the lofty ideals by which the greater political goals may be realized. The activities of many political parties and movements, along with their inner complexities, may be factors that alienate youth from involvement in this environment. We may find that a youth refuses to participate in the political discourse because of his negative conception of the subject, based on what he has perceived in his environment, on his readings or on a negative conclusion such as politics is chicanery, prevarication, hypocrisy, that one should distance himself from it.