GLOBALIZATION

OF RELIGION
 LESSON OBJECTIVES
• Explain how globalization affects religious
practices and beliefs.
• Analyze the relationship between religion
and global conflict and, conversely, global
peace.
• Share a personal experience about impacts
of Globalization on Religion.
SUB-TOPICS TO BE ❑ SOCIAL
DISCUSSED ORGANIZATIONS OF
RELIGION
❑ WHAT IS RELIGION?
❑ TOOLS USED TO UNITE
GLOBALIZATION? PEOPLE ON A
RELIGIOUS BASIS
WORLD’S 20
❑ ❑ IMPACT OF
LARGEST RELIGIONS GLOBALIZATION
ON RELIGION
 01
WHAT IS
GLOBALIZATION?
 Globalization

• It is the networking and

expansion of once local
products, beliefs and
practices into universal
products, beliefs and
practices often through
technology. https://www.google.com/search?q=globalization
&sxsrf=
 02
WHAT IS
RELIGION?
 “People’s beliefs and
RELIGION
❑

opinions concerning the

existence, nature, and
❑ A system of socially worship of a deity or
shared symbols, beliefs, deities, and divine
and rituals that is involvement in the
directed toward a universe and human
sacred, supernatural life.
realm and addresses the ❑ It denotes the belief
ultimate meaning of in, or the worship of, a
human existence Durkheim god (or gods) and the
(1856-1917). worship or service to
God or the supernatural.
VARIETIES
OF
RELIGION
 ANIMATISM ANIMISM
❑ A system of beliefs in ❑ The belief that spirit beings
inhabit the same world as
which supernatural
humans, but on another
forces rather than plane of existence.
beings (gods or ❑ Spirits include ghosts, souls
of the dead, animal spirits,
spirits) are the
guardian angel, ancestral
dominant power in spirits, fairies, and evil
the universe. demons.
 THEISM ❑ Monotheistic
❑ A belief in one or more
supreme beings or gods who, religions – religions
because of their power and that acknowledge
influence in human affairs, are
deserving of worship. the existence of
❑ Polytheism – most common single, supreme God
form of theism. People
worship numerous gods
– are Judaism,
whom they recognize as Christianity, and
having varying degrees of
power.
Islam.
❑For Jews and Christians, this fundamental
belief is expressed in the First Commandment,
which prescribes, “I am the Lord they
God…Thou shalt have no other Gods before me
“ (Exodus 20:1-3).
❑For Muslims, the same belief is expressed in
the first of the Five Pillars of Islam: “There is no
God but Allah, and Mohammed is His prophet.”
 ETHICAL RELIGIONS
❑Concerned with philosophical ideals
that emphasize contemplation and
proper thoughts and actions as the
way to achieve enlightenment and
find peace and harmony in this
world.
 Ethical religions of the Far East
include:
1. Buddhism – fourth largest religion in the world,
is based on the teachings of Siddharta Gautama –
the future Buddha.
❑ The self and all earthly existence are illusions and
that self-discipline, meditation, and a moral and
virtuous life are the true paths to understanding
and happiness.
 Ethical religions of the Far East
include:
2. Taoism – founded by Lao-Tzu
3. Confucianism- founded by K’ung Fu-tzu
❑ Contemporaries of Buddha and both taught
that meditation and selfness were paths to
spiritual enlightenment.
There are 4,300 religions all over
the world.

The world’s 20 largest religions

and their number of believers
are:
• Christianity --- 2.1 billion
• Islam ----- 1.3 billion
• Non-religious ---- 1.1 billion
• Hinduism ----- 900 million
• Chinese traditional religion -----
394 million
• Buddhism ----- 376 million
• Primal- indigenous ----- 300
million
• African traditional religion ------
100 million
• Sikhism ---- 23 million
• Juche ---- 19 million
• Spiritism ----- 23 million
• Judaism ----- 14 million
• Bahai --- 7 million
• Jainism ------ 4.2 million
• Shinto ------- 4 million
• Cao Dai ----- 4 million
• Zoroastrianism ------- 2.6
million
• Tenrikyo --- 2 million
• Neo-Paganism ------ 1
million
• Unitarian- Universalism---
800, 000
 RELIGIOUS
ACTORS • Religious actors are
• Individuals or groups, among the oldest of
who act on consistent transnationals –
messages regarding the carrying words and
relationship between praxis across vast
religion, politics and spaces
society
 SOCIAL
ORGANIZATIONS
OF RELIGION
 1. ECCLESIA 2. DENOMINATION
❑ A large, formally ❑ One of a number of
organized religious established, socially
body that includes most accepted religious
members of a society organizations that
and is supported by and maintain tolerant
closely allied with relations with other
secular and state denominations in the
powers. context of religious
pluralism.
 3. SECT
❑ A small, less formally
❑ Is a loosely organized and
organized group that
usually has separated
from a denomination
and is in a negative
tension with the larger
society.
4. New Religious
Movement (Cult)
transient religious
organization that includes
religious beliefs and
practices that are
considered novel and at
odds with a society’s
religious traditions.
TOOLS OF UNITING
PEOPLE ALL OVER
THE WORLD ON
RELIGIOUS BASIS
• Religion can be spread more
efficiently than ever before
through the use of different
technological tools.
• Books
• Movies
• Cellphone apps
• Social networks
• Charity funds
• Special internet sites
• Religious schools
• Through the use of magazines, the media,
Facebook, twitter, YouTube, commercials,
podcasts, cellphone apps so much more, it
is now possible for many religions to
spread national borders, allowing even
small new religious movements to engage
in overseas activities and leading to new
unseen religious developments.
THE SPREAD
OF RELIGION
 How does
religion spread
globally?
Pilgrimage and tourism are the major forces in the
globalization of culture.
• Christians often visit to holy sites (e.g. Jerusalem)
• Muslims should travel to Mecca to undertake the haji
at least once in their life, connecting also to the
Islamic communes around the world
• Cultural exchange, missionary activity and
pilgrimages are important sectors, which promoted
the process of globalization.
A pilgrimage is a journey to some
sacred place as an act of religious
devotion. A pilgrim is more than a
tourist and a pilgrimage is more than a
journey. A pilgrim travels with a
spiritual purpose, a goal to be closer to
God.
 IMPACT OF
GLOBALIZATION
ON RELIGION
Globalization may have implied on
faith in the following three possible
impacts:
1)Religion is being eroded.
2)Religion is being strengthened.
3)Religion is declining but it has
developed new identities of
hybridity.
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