HISTORY UNVEILS THE DIVISIVE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF RELIGION

Authors

  • Ignatius Jesudasan Jesuit regional theologate in Chennai

Keywords:

Politics, Religion

Abstract

A land with a gigantic population and its connatural demographic diversity, which made India proud for ages as the home or cradle of many religions, seems a matter of both social shame and historical scandal that the same religions should lately be seen as a ground of national conflict and confrontation. The scandal seems more acute, when it is, at the same time, commonly mouthed that all religions are essentially the same, which is why they are categorized under religion.

Author Biography

Ignatius Jesudasan, Jesuit regional theologate in Chennai

Dr. Ignatius Jesudasan, the librarian at Arulkadal, Jesuit regional theologate in Chennai. He has authored the following books: Roots of Religious Violence: A Critique of Ethnic Metaphors (2007), Genesis Myth of Manifold Meanings (2008), Through the Prism: literary-critical Scripture-Reading (2008), A Rumour of Biblical Angels (2008), Cult and Spirituality (2008), and Gospels of Deconstructed Adamic Myth (2009).

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Published

2008-09-30

How to Cite

Jesudasan, I. (2008). HISTORY UNVEILS THE DIVISIVE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF RELIGION. Journal of Dharma, 33(3), 277–282. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/jd/article/view/406

Issue

Vol. 33 No. 3 (2008): Journal of Dharma

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Articles