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THE GLOBALIZATION

OF RELIGION
LESSON 6
GOOD DAY STUDENTS!

THIS WEEK’S LESSONS WILL HELP US TO UNDERSTAND HOW


GLOBALIZATION SPREAD AND AFFECT DIFFERENT ENTITIES. WE WILL
DISCUSS THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE GROWTH OF GLOBALIZATION AT
THE SAME TIME THE EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION IN THE ASPECT OF
RELIGION. WE WILL ALSO DISCUSS THE ROLE OF MEDIA, BUT WE WILL
HAVE ITS INTRODUCTION WHEN WE GET THERE.
NOW, IN THIS PART OF OUR LESSON WE WILL TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE
DIFFERENT UNDERTAKINGS THAT RELIGION HAD TO GO THROUGH SINCE
GLOBALIZATION IS INEVITABLE. HENCE, WE WILL ALSO SEE HOW
RELIGION ADAPTS TO THE WORLD OF GLOBALIZATION.

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Learning Outcomes
 How globalization affects religious
practices and beliefs.
 Identify the various religious
responses to globalization.
 Discuss the future of religion in a
globalized world.

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RELIGION
• the belief and worship of a
s u p e r h u m a n c o n t r o l l i n g p o w e r,
especially a personal God or
gods.
• most difficult relationship with
globalism.

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GLOBALISM
• Widespread belief among
powerful people
• One world, one government

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GLOBALISM/GLOBALIZATION VS. RELIGION
1. Religion is concerned with the sacred, while
globalism places value on material wealth.

2. Religion follows divine commandments while


globalism abides by human-made laws.

3. Religion assumes that there is the possibility of


communication between humans and the transcendent,
while globalism’s yardsticks is of how much of human
actions can lead to the highest material satisfaction and
subsequent wisdom that this new status produces.
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GLOBALISM/GLOBALIZATION VS.
RELIGION

4. Religious people are less concerned with the


wealth and all that comes along with it, while
globalists believed that this is a form of
asceticism precisely because they shun
anything material for complete simplicity.

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GLOBALISM/GLOBALIZATION VS.
RELIGION
5. Religious person’s main duty is to live a virtuous and sinless
life while globalists are less worried whether they will end up in
heaven or in hell, since they are more concerned about the
general progress of the community, the nation and the global
economic system.

6. Religious detest politics and the quest for power for they are
evidence of humanity’s weakness, while the globalists values
them as both means and ends to open up further economies of
the world.

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GLOBALISM/GLOBALIZATION VS.
RELIGION
7. The religious is concerned with spreading holy ideas
globally, while globalists wish to spread goods and services.

8. Religious regard identities associated with globalism such


as citizenship, language and race as inferior and narrow,
membership to religious group, organization or cult
represent a superior affiliation that connects humans
directly to the divine.

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TITLE
RELIGION GLOBALISM
• Material wealth, Abides
• Sacred, divine
by human-made laws
commandments
• Human action can lead
• Communication
to the highest material
between humans and satisfaction
transcendence • Less worried whether

• Virtuous , sinless they will end up in


heaven or hell

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REALITIES

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REALITIES
• Christianity
• Judaism
• Islam GLOBALIZED
• Hinduism
• Buddhism

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• PETER BERGER
“CONTEMPORARY WORLD IS…
FURIOUSLY RELIGIOUS”

RELIGIONS ARE THE


FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN
REPUBLICS.

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ISLAM
• Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

• “There is no fundamental distinction among


constitutional, despotic,
dictatorial, democratic, and
communistic regimes.”

• Nahdlatul Ulama (pesantren)

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• King Henry VIII (Church of England)

• Alexis de Tocqueville
“not only do the Americans practice
their religion out of self interest but
they often even place in this world
the interest which they have in
practicing it.”

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Religion FOR and
AGAINST
Globalization

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“Profane”
Globalizatio
n
PROFANE – relating or devoted to which is not
sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious

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Religion FOR
Globalization
Christianity and Islam see
globalization less as an obstacle
and more as an opportunity to
expand their reach all over the
world.

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Religion AGAINST Globalization

Some Muslims view globalization as Trojan


Horse hiding supporters of Western values
like secularism, liberalism or even
communism ready to spread these ideas in
their areas to eventually displace them.

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CONCLUSION
Peter Bayer & Lori Beaman observed,

“Religion, it seems, is see how ‘outside’


looking at globalization as problem or
potential.”

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THANK YOU

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