CSA Fall Lecture Series: Ajay Verghese (Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Riverside)

This project aims to reinvigorate the study of secularization by examining Hinduism in India, the world’s largest Asian tradition with over one billion followers. India should be considered a ‘crucial case’ for secularization theory as a deeply religious and fast-developing country. I show that education and income do not correlate with secularism, but personal security is a consistent predictor of secular attitudes.