The demarcation of church and state (i.e. the spheres of secularization and religion) is a grasping concept that invokes much debate: academically, personally, and intellectually. However, there are several pressing questions that have yet to be explored in-depth such as: Why the boundary of Church and State? Is there a clear-cut distinction among both? Why are they known to be opposing forces? To contextualize this debate, it is necessary to conceptualize this nexus.

Defining Religion:

Religion is a term that is derived from religio a term derived from Latin’s relegae. The premise is thus that one is bound to a higher being through objects of faith (i.e. prayer and piety) and concern themselves with the metaphysical (other than this lifetime). Religion is not a subjective attitude towards this higher being, but refers to specific doctrines and rituals shared and preformed by human collectivities (e.g. Hindus, Christian, Muslims) and such rituals can be “objectively” observed. For example, I can measure a group’s religiosity by examining their piousness in performing prayer etc…

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“In my lifetime, I have always believed that God was Truth. Today I have found that Truth is God.”—Mahatma Gandhi

What is faith? How can it be tackled? And can we refer to ourselves as people of faith in this ever-pragmatic world that we inhabit? Does my religion have supremacy over yours? Are we at an ideological clash of no meeting point with “the other?”

Obviously, these questions are not to be tackled in one article, but they are certainly questions that we all face in our daily lives. Whether we choose to ignore them, or tackle them is what divides us into those who reason and those who submit. It divides us between those who attain faith through knowledge, and those who believe because they were told to. And we are thus divided.

In his famous book Faith and Belief: And the Difference Between Them, former Harvard theologian William Cantwell Smith asserts that today’s world rarely has people of faith, but rather we are people of identity. Muslims for example, are more pre-occupied with their Muslim identity as opposed to their Islamic faith. Let’s examine this with closer detail using the following example:

For fourteen years, like my colleagues and friends I underwent my Islamic studies course and for the most part exceptionally passed. Year after year the topics might have changed but the mechanism did not: Learn how to recite passages in the Qur’an, memorize the prophet’s teachings-hadeeth and explore religious doctrines as applied to the topic at hand. To many, this may be an appropriate methodology. True. However, the methodology applied is not what is in question, but rather, the curriculum is.

During that time the government of Kuwait concentrated its Islamic Studies curriculum to answer questions such as: Why is God great? Why did God create man? And finally what is expected of a devout Muslim. Many may perceive that this is enough. I was among them, until recently that is. It is important to note the theological questions such as: The divinity of God, the absolutism of the Qur’an, The prospects of jurisprudence-Fiqh and the historical evolution of Islamic thought was never incorporated in the Islamic studies curriculum.

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