Views of Mahatma Gandhi on Religion and Politics

Authors: Dr. Kripa Shanker Yadav

Country: India

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Abstract: Gandhi still held the view that he could not conceive politics as divorced from religion. Indeed, religion should pervade every one of our actions. Here religion does not mean sectarianism. It means a belief in ordered moral government of the universe. It is not less real because it is unseen. This religion transcends Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, etc. It does not supersede them. It harmonizes them and gives them reality. According to Gandhi, there is no politics without religion–not the religion of the superstitious and the blind, religion that hates and fights, but the universal Religion of Toleration. Politics without morality is a thing to be avoided.

Keywords: Religion, Politics, Truth, Morality

Paper Id: 1602

Published On: 2017-02-25

Published In: Volume 5, Issue 1, January-February 2017

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