WEEK 4 NOTES

THE GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION

 Religions have in fact , spread and scattered on a global scale.

 As Scholte made clear, “Accelerated globalization of recent times has enabled co-
religionists across the planet to have greater direct contact with one another”.
 Information technologies , transportation means and the media are deemed important
means on which religionists rely on the dissemination of their religious ideas.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Examples :
 Countless websites that provide information about religions have been created.
 The Internet allows people to contact each other worldwide.

MEDIA
Example :
 A lot of television channels, radio stations and print media are founded solely for
advocating religions

TRANSPORTATION
Example :
 Turner cited the case of Islamic revivalism in Asia that they improved transportation that
allowed many Muslims to travel to Mecca

SUMMARY
GLOBALIZATION has allowed religion or faith to gain considerable significance and
importance as a non-territorial touchstone of identity.

GLOBALIZATION AND REGIONALIZATION

Region
-a group of countries in the same geographically specified area.
Regionalization
-societal integration and the often undirected process of social and economic interaction.
Regionalism
-the formal process of intergovernmental collaboration between two or more states.

 The regionalization of the world systems and economic activity undermines the potential
benefits coming out from a liberalized global economy.
 Regional organizations respond to the states attempt to reduce the perceived effects of
globalization.
 Regionalism is a sort of counter- globalization.
 Regional developments in one part of the world have affected and fueled regionalization
everywhere else in a sort of contagion or domino effect.
 This fact, along with increasing developments in interregional cooperation, shows that
the regionalization process is global in nature .
 One of the reasons behind regionalism is the concern for security, which is to ensure
peace and security.
 Confidence building can be enhanced through economic cooperation within a region.
 The ASEAN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are regional
organizations that seek strong security in Asia through cooperation.
 According to Huntington(1996), he identified nine(9) major civilizations: WESTERN,
LATIN AMERICAN, AFRICAN, ISLAMIC, SINIC, HINDU, ORTHODOX, BUDDIST,
AND JAPANESE.