The Secular State and Religious Conflict: Liberal Neutrality and the Indian Case of Pluralism
The Secular State and Religious Conflict: Liberal Neutrality and the Indian Case of Pluralism
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9760.2007.00268.x
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发表时间：
2007-03
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
S. N. Balagangadhara;Jakob De Roover
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作者：
S. N. Balagangadhara;Jakob De Roover
在当今世界上，很少有地方的文化多元化问题像印度这样尖锐。印度的案例对宽容的政治理论提出了根本性的挑战。通过处理宗教皈依的问题，我们的分析表明，在印度的背景下，国家中立的主要方式变得站不住脚。以西方自由民主国家为蓝本的印度国家，由于其宽容和国家中立的概念，是印度宗教冲突的先驱。印度更多的“世俗主义”最终会助长它所反对的东西：所谓的“印度教原教旨主义”。
There are few places in the contemporary world where the problems of cultural pluralism are as acute as they are in India. The Indian case poses fundamental challenges to the political theory of toleration. By tackling the problem of religious conversion, our analysis shows that the dominant way of conceiving state neutrality becomes untenable in the Indian context. The Indian state, modelled after the liberal democracies in the West, is the harbinger of religious conflict in India because of its conception of toleration and state neutrality. More of ‘secularism’in India will end up feeding what it fights: the so-called ‘Hindu fundamentalism’.