Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Modern religious politics is born in the crucible of democracy and nationalism, not theology

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: Modern religious politics is born in the crucible of democracy and nationalism, not theology

In post-mortem of secularism, we are hand wringing over religion, missing the real crisis

AUGUST 11, 2020 9:38:53 AM

PB Mehta writes: To take religion seriously is to preserve the conditions of religious freedom for all, letting each person discover the law of their own Being. I tremble at the thought of a politicised public sphere taking religion seriously.