INDIAN SECULARISM THREATENED! A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE

Statement of Indian Theological Association 2010, Bangalore

Abstract

On the occasion of the 33^rd annual seminar of the Indian Theological Association, during April 24-28, 2010, about 50 of its members gathered to reflect on how Indian Secularism (as reflected in the Indian Constitution) is threatened today, and to formulate an appropriate Christian response. The threats come from various quarters: organizations espousing extreme right ideologies, communal parties professing fundamentalist agendas, persons and groups having recourse to violence rather than to judicial procedures, and those wanting to impose a so-called cultural nationalism on the people of India.