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About the Book

This edition is an analytical study of the nature and transformation of religions in secular society. Here we have tried to focus on the conflict and consensus between religion and secular society. As the institutions of secular society grew apart, the religious institutions and their functionaries lost their control over various social activities and the civil authority gained in power. The emergence of new classes with new skills and resources, who were not accommodated in the religious institutions, made the first properly instituted invasion on the spiritual monopoly. Hope this edition will be mirror for modern society.

About the Author

Dr. N.K. Singh, a Director of International Centre for Religious Studies, Delhi and Chief Editor of Global Religious Vision—a quarterly Research Journal, has specialized himself in oriental studies and wrote a number of important books on religion and philosophy. His important works are Islam in Western Perspectives; Islam: A Religion of Peace; Islamic Mysticism in India; God in Indian Islamic Theology and Unseen God. He has also edited Encyclopaedia of the Holy Qur’ân in 5 Vols.