Ep. 124: Religion and Ideology in Indian Society
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Mobilization of Religious Conservatives in America
I'm talking about two autonomous semi-autonomous systems there's a legal system which is based on this basically I mean I'm oversimplifying but this system of legal positivism where laws are what we make. And the other is this traditional law and all that and if you intervene too much on the former in a manner that is totally an acceptable society time and again you have a risk that this system will be mobilized to implement its own ideas into this. Can you illustrate that for me either with a hypothetical example or when it's really happened that way so okay I think it's better to talk about examples which have happened elsewhere. The whole nature of the state might be transformed over time in
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