Gandhian Pluralist Spirituality and the Anticorruption Mission of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi

Domenic MARBANIANG

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-2641-1_14

Gandhian Pluralist Spirituality and the Anticorruption Mission of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi

Domenic MARBANIANG^*

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Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy

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This chapter analyzes the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, which was led by Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, through the lens of Gandhian pluralist spirituality. This spirituality is anchored in the objective of truth realization through nonviolent social service. The chapter investigates the relationship of the five ethical essentials in the Hindu–Jain tradition to their application in GandhiGandhi’s attempt to realize Ruskin and Tolstoy’s socialist ideals in real-life settings. It also explores the concept of laicization inherent in the truth-realization ideal as an antidote to the problem of corruption in India. The Aam Aadmi Party implemented this concept to make Delhi corruption-free. Finally, the chapter observes that this pluralistic secular spirituality is not antithetical to the concept of secular spirituality in the Bible.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Asian Spiritualities and Social Transformation
Editors	Simon Shui-Man Kwan, Wai-Yin Chow
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	247-261
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9789819926411
ISBN (Print)	9789819926404, 9789819926435
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2641-1_14
Publication status	Published - 17 Oct 2023

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