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Globalization changes the common term "religion" into a world-system of competing and
conflicting religions. This institutional specialization process has been transformed into local,
diverse, and fragmented cultural practices into recognizable religious systems.
2. Secularization is outdated because they believed that as the world became more modern,
scientific, and educated, it would also become less religious. This was based on the experience
of Western Europe, where secularization had resulted from modernization. Faith lacks cultural
authority in secularized societies, and religious organizations have little social power.
Secularization, both as a theory and as a historical process, has various meanings.
3. The media has a significant influence on cultural globalization. The media facilitates the
widespread transnational transmission of cultural products, as well as the formation of
communicative networks and social structures. Through international news broadcasts,
television programming, new technologies, film, and music, the media is now seen as playing a
critical role in enhancing globalization and facilitating cultural exchange and multiple flows of
information and images between countries.
4. By removing cultural barriers, globalization traps religion in a quagmire of conflicts that
strengthen social identities as some refuse to acknowledge new realities and turn to religion to
rediscover their own identity. Religion gives people a sense of belonging to a group in the world.
Globalization also has a negative effect on religion by shattering traditional beliefs as people
become more connected to the world, which sometimes weakens their own religious beliefs.
5. Even if globalization strengthens and fortifies religion, it also poses a challenge to the hybridizing
effects of globalization. In the context of globalization, religion seeks to assert its identity. As a
result, various religious identities emerge and assert themselves. Religions' inner nature and the
desire to be accepted and practiced by people all over the world urges them to spread
throughout all of the world's geographical spaces. Religions, in order to emerge and spread,
make good use of globalization technologies.