Question

What is the difference between indian secularism and american secularism?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The one significant way in which Indian secularism differs from the dominant understanding of secularism as practised in USA This is because unlike the strict separation between religion and the State in American secularism, in Indian secularism the State can intervene in religious affairs,. For example the Indian Constitution intervened in Hindu religious practises in order to abolish untouchability. In Indian secularism, though the state is not strictly separate from religion it does maintain a principled distance vis-a-vis religion.

Answer 2

The major difference between Indian Secularism and American Secularism is that American Secularism strictly separates State and Religion and avoids intervening in Religious Affairs. However, Indian Secularism is totally the opposite. The State can intervene in Religious Matters if it needs to. For Example, the Indian Judiciary’s interference to abolish Hindu Religious Practice Untouchability.

• Before we get into answering the difference between Indian secularism and American secularism, let’s understand in brief what secularism is according to both contexts. The general definition of secularism says that State is totally separated from Religion, which America follows. However, in the Indian context, Secularism shows tolerance towards all religions and gives them the right to practice their religion freely.

• Despite State’s intervention in Religious Matters, Indian Secularism is still maintained by respecting all religions and giving them the freedom to practice their religion without being harmful to society. Hence, Indian Secularism can never avoid interfering in religious matters, because the country India itself is based on different religions and cultures.

• If we understand Secularism in both countries from a modern-day context, both now have become more similar but the only difference is, the measures taken to deal with the problems are different according to their cultures and social systems.

• Let’s understand this with examples according to both contexts. Today, in India, secularism is considered to be a kind of “Hypocrisy”; where Equality and the Constitution merely apply to one community, but not to other communities. People in India use terms like “Pseudo-Secularism” or “One-Sided Secularism” for Indian Secularism, because the activists, politicians, media, etc claim themselves to be secular, but don’t act accordingly to that term.

• In America, Americans use terms for Secularism like “Socialism”, “Communism”, “Un-American”, “Woke”, etc. According to them, Secularism is merely used as a political tool by liberals to push their socialist agenda by pretending to fight racism blaming only White people for harm to Black people, allowing illegal immigration into America, encouraging abortions of infants, demanding gun control endangering American lives, enforcing LGBTQ education in schools, provoke rioting and violence, etc.

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