Comment: The mixed story of the rise of Islamism in the Maldives
29 Sep 2011, 10:34 AM
Azim Zahir
One of the many lessons of the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s magisterial book, A Secular Age, is how religion continues to exist and continues to be relevant.
The relevance is not only limited to religion’s potential for creating identity and meaning in life.
Religion’s relevance also lies in the moral and epistemological limitations of the virulent forms of atheistic exclusive humanism and hardcore naturalistic ‘science’ that Richard Dawkins, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and their ilk seem to be promoting.
Religion’s potential for solidarity and taking the cause of justice and vulnerable forms of life, is as relevant as ever.
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