The God Market: How Globalization Is Making India More Hindu

摘要

My father was a Hindu who prayed every day. When I decided in mid-adolescence that I was an atheist, my father took my apostasy in stride. Soon my father and I progressed to an amiable disagreement about god and religion that remained in place for the rest of his life. I don't believe my father's tolerance of my atheism was unique. I do think that, when it comes to Hindu politics in India, careful qualification is necessary, so vexed is the issue of religion by which aspects of the political life of the country have been hijacked in the last 30 years.