ABSTRACT
SacredSecular is an extended invitation to contemplate the possibility that the ethical and liberatory dimensions of sacred and secular frameworks can fruitfully invigorate each other and, in turn, strengthen our ability to address the pressing issues of our time. The writing in SacredSecular traverses several registers: the personal and the social, the contemplative and the analytical and, for want of a better description, the cognitive and the extra-cognitive. SacredSecular charts a journey at once personal and analytical. A brief clarification of the terms secular and secularism is perhaps in order. In its classic sense, secularism refers to the separation of church and state, of religion from governance. In a second meaning, more in keeping with its sense in the Constitution of India, secularism is the notion that the state shall not ally itself with any single religion but rather treat them all equally and without prejudice.
