Debating Secularism in Nepal: Conspicuously at Crossroad between Mission or Fashion?

Abstract

The spectrum of global debates has agendas and discourses of different dimensions ranging from power to regime to environment to terrorism to space war to religion to international relations as well and many more others. Theology had been one of globally guiding motifs behind regimes and rules for long span of time during medieval period and prior to it. No sooner had the religious dominance and dogma derailed and gradually faded out than there was commencement of the wave of Age of Reasoning and industrial revolution. However, of late, the debate on religion and validity on recently declared secularism in Nepal has been a fresh debate again. It is still a pressing question: has secularism been only fashion or indeed a mission? This write-up argues that the discourse of secularism is less rationally reviewed and assessed; rather has been engaged mere emotionally. It eventually urges that such an emotional treatment over crucially complex context should be altered into a remarkably reasonable and rational handling.