[Buddha-l] The religious practice of going aftersomeone's job--India/USA

[curt]

Vedanta should count - Hinduism in general, although its a little
difficult to actually say just what Hinduism is. Buddhism counts,
especially if we ignore artificial political boundaries and speak
more generally of South Asia - or "the Indian Sub-continent".

The secularist critique of religion, in very broad terms, is a 
generalization
to all Religions of the critique of Christianity that was developed by
Europeans during the Enlightenment. I just made that up - but I think
it will hold water. In practice secularism tends to treat all Religions
as if they were just different instances of a general phenomenon of
which Christianity is a typical or even paradigmatic example. But other
religions have very different track records - especially with respect to
the specific shortcomings of Christianity (or, more accurately, Latin
Christendom) that the Enlightenment was a response to.

- Curt

jkirk wrote:

>
> Which religions of India do you consider to be indigenous, and what
> in your view is the 'secularist' critique you refer to?
> Joanna
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