Religion is a bundle of moral and ethical values. Religion holds an importance place in the life of people. Rather secluding it, the right strategy is to inculcate it in a way so as to promote cohesiveness. It can play following roles:
– Society
– Cohesiveness: to promote social harmony and interdependence
– Compassion and empathy: to promote distributive justice
– Festivals: to merge social differences and making monolithic bloc of society
– Political
– Welfarism with the consent of all: Muslims are doing relatively poor on the development index
– Tenets of different religions in Governing the society
– International
– Soft diplomacy: connecting the Indian diasporas
– Tackling the menace of Terrorism
– Economy
– Buddhist Circuit
– Religious Economic Centres: Vaishno Devi