HPAS 2024 Mains GS-1 Question 8
How do you understand and analyse the phenomenon of rising religiosity in a global world?
Solution:
Updated Answer Structure (Consolidated)
If you combine these with your requested headings, your final flow would look like this:
Future Solution: Using Faith-Based Diplomacy and religious “Moral Capital” for development (e.g., using Temple Trusts for building hospitals/schools).
Introduction: Define Globalized World vs. Secularization Thesis.
Factors Leading to Rising Religiosity: Identity Crisis, Meaning Gap, Digital Proselytization.
Positive Impact: Social Cohesion, Ethical Framework, Eco-Spirituality (Conservation).
Negative Impact: Fundamentalism, Communalism, Resistance to Rationalism.
Factors Reducing Religiosity: Scientific Temper, Consumerism, Individualism.
The Indian Context (Multiple Modernities): How India balances the “Sacred” and the “Modern.”