The Freedom of Religious Institutions and Human Flourishing in India: A Present and Future Research Agenda

In this paper, I explore how India’s complex regime of control and management of religious institutions and communities—ironically, particularly Hindu institutions—influences the capacity of these institutions to promote various dimensions of human flourishing and socio-economic uplift among the mos...

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1. VerfasserIn: Shah, Rebecca Supriya (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Jahr: 2021, Band: 12, Heft: 7
weitere Schlagwörter:B Economy
B Covid-19
B Education
B Religion
B Pandemic
B religion institution
B Human Flourishing
B Institutions
B Culture
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Zusammenfassung:In this paper, I explore how India’s complex regime of control and management of religious institutions and communities—ironically, particularly Hindu institutions—influences the capacity of these institutions to promote various dimensions of human flourishing and socio-economic uplift among the most marginalized. In addition, I provide an overview of India’s highly varied landscape when it comes to the freedom of religious institutions from state control, and in particular discuss how some minority religious institutions experience fewer government constraints on some aspects of their freedom to self-identify and self-govern, especially when compared to some majority institutions, such as Hindu temples. Although some minority institutions still face constraints on certain aspects of their operations, the freedom they have to manage their internal affairs can, at times, translate into greater agility and the ability to innovate and flourish in the context of 21st-century India.
ISSN:2077-1444
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel12070550