Monday, August 6, 2007

Dharma Cola

by Swapan Dasgupta from Outlook India

The core conflict, it seems to me, involves faiths of Indian and non-Indian origin. The core conflict, it seems to me, involves faiths of Indian and non-Indian origin. The evolution of a uniquely Indian Islam has, for example, floundered in the face of a Wahabi Islamism that ends up Arabising local Muslims. Likewise, the Roman Catholic Church has made its antipathy to Eastern spirituality quite open. The absence of a national theology agitated individual Muslims like Dara Shikoh and many upper-caste Indian Christians. It led to experiments with "Hindu Christianity" and calls to abandon conversions altogether ... . A national approach to faith may be an Indian solution to dharmantaran.

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