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Question 1

Appeared in Year: 2014

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How is religious revivalism different from communalism? Elaborate with suitable examples from the India context. (Paper-1)

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Religious Revivalism and Communalism

  • Religious revivalism is an extreme form of religious fundamental in which individual or group tries to restore the lost glory of religion in the society. They not merely carry their religious principles in their life rather forces or compels others to follow the religious principles in words and spirit.
  • Communalis…

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Question 2

Appeared in Year: 2018

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Discuss the challenges thrown by religious revivalism to a secular nation-state. (Paper-1)

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Challenges Thrown by Religious Revivalism to a Secular Nation State

  • Religious Revivalism is a process through which religion gets revived to “inform action, thinking and feeling of individual or institutions” . It is called ‘revivalism’ because after Renaissance, Industrial Revolution and French Revolution, religion was imagined to recede from indiv…

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Question 3

Appeared in Year: 2017

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Problematize the concept if secularism in the present context.

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Secularism in the Present Context

  • Secularism refers to separation of religion from authority. In traditional societies, conscience collective as legitimacy behind authority to govern pervading customs and habits of society are mainly driven from religion, a set of sacred and profane.
    • Characteristics of secularism broadly consist following elements.
    • Se…

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Question 4

Appeared in Year: 2016

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Is religion playing an important role in increasing fundamentalism? Give reasons for your answer. (Paper-1)

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Religion and Increasing Fundamentalism

  • Fundamentalism refers to tradition defended in traditional way. Fundamentalism is sometimes linked to violence, particularly terrorism, though this is not always the case.
  • The main cause of fundamentalism is the belief of religious traditionalists that the world around them has changed so as to threaten their ab…

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Question 5

Appeared in Year: 2013

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Science has empirical means to logical ends a religion has non-empirical means to logical ends. — Comment.

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Science, Religion and Logical Ends

  • Religion is the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Religion and science h…

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Question 6

Appeared in Year: 2012

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Discuss the factors leading to growing religious revivalism in the contemporary world.

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Growing Religious Revivalism in the Contemporary World

Religious revivalism refers to mass movements based upon intense religious excitement seeking to restore religious commitment and attachment to a group.

Factors Leading to Religious Revivalism

  • The increasing trends of urbanization, migrations within and beyond country borders, consumerism and the …

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Question 7

Appeared in Year: 2013

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Is religion antithetical to science? Comment (Paper-1)

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Religion and Science

  • Religion and science both are complex social and cultural endeavors that vary across cultures and have changed over time.
  • Science acknowledges reason, empiricism, and evidence, while religions include revelation, faith and sacredness whilst also acknowledging philosophical and metaphysical explanations with regard to the study of…

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Question 8

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Secularization and caste

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Secularisation and Caste

  • Secularisation is a process of change in religion whereby religious beliefs, practices and institutions are supposed to decline in society or they are supposed to lose their social significance. Secularisation as a process therefore involve emergence of a secular state and a secular society.
  • The term ‘caste’ comes from Portug…

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Question 9

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Religious revivalism in India has elements of both modernity and tradition in the current times. Comment (Marks-20)

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