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Globalization of Religion - Group 4-A

Religions and globalization have a complex relationship. While they seem to have contrasting belief systems, religions have adapted to aspects of globalization by appropriating secular themes and using modern communication technologies to expand their reach. In some cases, religions were foundations for modern republics, and in other cases, a shift in state policy led to the rise of religion. While religions may oppose some aspects of globalization, they also see opportunities to spread their influence globally and fill social gaps left by declining traditional ties.

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Globalization of Religion - Group 4-A

Religions and globalization have a complex relationship. While they seem to have contrasting belief systems, religions have adapted to aspects of globalization by appropriating secular themes and using modern communication technologies to expand their reach. In some cases, religions were foundations for modern republics, and in other cases, a shift in state policy led to the rise of religion. While religions may oppose some aspects of globalization, they also see opportunities to spread their influence globally and fill social gaps left by declining traditional ties.

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Globalization

of Religion

Group 4
Ancheta, Rochelle
Abutin, Carmela
Austria, Valerie
Baranda, Sophia
Salgado, Shiella
Introduction
Religion has the most difficult relationship with

01 globalism, since the two are entirely


contrasting belief systems.

A religious person's main duty is to live a

02 virtuous and sinless-life, so that he/she is


assured of a place in other world when he/she
died.

Globalists are trained to be sensible


03 businesspeople with skills to further the
economies of the world.

Religion and globalism clash over the fact that


04 religious evangelization is in itself a form of
globalization
Introduction
Religions regard identities associated with

05 globalism as inferior or narrow, since they are


earthly categories.

Membership to a religious group, organization,

06 or cult represents a superior affiliation that


connects humans directly to the divine and the
supernatural.

These philosophical differences explain why


07 certain groups "flee" their communities and
create impenetrable sanctuaries.

08 Communities justify their opposition


government authority on religious grounds.
to
Realities
In actuality, the relationship between religion and
globalism is much more complicated. Peter Berger
argues that far from being secularized, the
"contemporary world is... furiously religious. In most of
the world, there are veritable explosions of religious
fervor, occurring in one form of another in all the major
religious traditions — Christianity, Judaism, Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism, and even Confucianism (if one
wants to call it a religion) — and in many places in
imaginative syntheses of one or more world religions
with indigenous faiths."
01 02 03

Religions are the Religious movements do not In other cases,


foundations of hesitate to appropriate religion was the
modern republics. secular themes and result of a shift in
practices. state policy.
Religion for and
against Globalization
There is hardly a religious movement today that does
not use religion to oppose "profane" globalization. Yet,
two of these so-called "old world religions" —Christianity
and Islam— see globalization less as an obstacle and
more as an opportunity to expand their reach all over
the world. Globalization has "freed" the communities
from the "constraints of the nation-state," but in the
process, also threatened to destroy the cultural system
that bind them together.
While religions may
benefit from the processes
of globalization, this does
Religion is not
not mean that its tensions
the "regressive
with globalist ideology will
force," rather
subside. With the exception of
it is a "pro-
active force" militant Islam, religious
forces are well aware that
they are in no position to
fight for a comprehensive
The advocacies to alternative to the
reverse or mitigate globalizing status quo.
Religious fundamentalism economic globalization
may dislike globalization's eventually gained the
materialism, but it attention of globalist
Religion seeks to continues to use the "full institutions.
take the place range of modern means of
of these broken communication and
"traditional ties" organization"
Conclusion

For a phenomenon that "is about everything,"


it is odd that globalization is seen to have
very little to do with religion.

Historians, political scientists, and


philosophers have now debunked much of
secularization theory.

Despite the inflexible features, religions are


actually quite malleable.
Thank You

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