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Religion & Globalization

Religion has a complex relationship with globalization. While globalization focuses on economic integration and material wealth, religion is concerned with spiritual matters and living according to divine principles. Some ways religion clashes with globalization include having different values, forms of communication, and life priorities. However, religion can also help communities cope with the changes brought by globalization by providing identity and moral guidance. So religion is both a force against and a proactive force shaping the globalized world. One reason globalization is seen as having little to do with religion is that globalization is associated with modernization, which is based on reason and science rather than moral or spiritual discourse.

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Religion & Globalization

Religion has a complex relationship with globalization. While globalization focuses on economic integration and material wealth, religion is concerned with spiritual matters and living according to divine principles. Some ways religion clashes with globalization include having different values, forms of communication, and life priorities. However, religion can also help communities cope with the changes brought by globalization by providing identity and moral guidance. So religion is both a force against and a proactive force shaping the globalized world. One reason globalization is seen as having little to do with religion is that globalization is associated with modernization, which is based on reason and science rather than moral or spiritual discourse.

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• A process refers to a larger phenomenon

that cannot simply be reduced to the


ways in which global market have been
integrated.
-Is usually refers to the integration of
the national market to a wide global
market signified by the increased free
trade.
• the belief in and worship of a superhuman
controlling power, especially a personal God or
gods.
• Religion may be defined as a cultural system of
designated behaviors and practices, morals,
worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies,
ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to
supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
Tools uniting people all over the world on
religious basis:
• Books
• Movies
• Cellphone apps
• Social networks
• Charity funds
Religion much more than
culture, has the most
difficult relationship with
globalism
-First, the two are entirely contrasting belief system.
-Religion is concerned with the sacred, while
globalism places values on material wealth.
-Religion follows divine commandments, while
globalism abides by human-made laws.
-Religion assumes that there is “the possibility of
communication between humans and the
transcendent.
-Religious people are less concerned with
wealth and all that comes along with it.

-They are ascetics precisely because they shun


anything material for complete simplicity from
their domain to the clothes they wear, to the
food they eat and even to the manner in which
they talk.
• Religious person’s main duty is to live
a virtuous, sin-less life such that when
he/she is assured of a place in the other
world.
On the other hand, globalists are less worried about whether they will end up in
heaven or hell. Their skills are more pedestrian as they aim to seal trade deals, raise profits of private
enterprises, improve government revenue collections, protect the
elites from being excessively taxed by the state and naturally enrich themselves.
-Religious aspires to become saint; the globalist
trains to be a shrewd business person.

-Religious detects politics and the quest for power


for they are evidence of humanity’s weakness; the
globalist values them as both means and ends to
open up further the economies of the world.
• Finally, religion and globalization
clash over the fact that religious
evangelization is
in itself a form of globalization.
Religion for and Against
Globalization
Religion seeks to take the place of these broken
traditional ties to either help communities cope
with their new situation or organize them to oppose
this major transformation of their lives. It can
provide the groups moral codes that answer
problems ranging from people’s health to social
conflict to even personal happiness.
Religion is thus not the regressive force that
stops or slows down globalization; it is
a pro-active force that gives communities a
new and powerful basis of identity. It is
an instrument with which religious people
can put their mark in the reshaping of
this globalizing world, although in its own
terms.
Conclusion
• For a phenomenon that is about everything, it is odd
that globalization is seen to have very little to do with
religion. As Peter Bayer and Lori Beaman observed,
• Religion, it seems, is somehow outside looking at
globalization as problem or potential?
One reason for this perspective is
the association of globalization with
modernization, which is a concept
of progress that is based on science,
technology, reason and the law),
-With reason, one will have to look elsewhere
than to moral discourse for fruitful thinking about
economic globalization and religion;
-Religion, being a belief system that cannot be
empirically proven is. therefore, anathema to
modernization.
-The thesis that modernization will erode religious
practice is often called Secularization theory.

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