The Globalization of Religion

Globalization

Refers to the historical process through which all

the people of the world are increasingly living in
a single social unit.
Also provides fertile ground for a variety of
religious manifestations that are not
institutionalized and for the development of
religion as a political and cultural resource.
 Religion
Is a collection of cultural systems, belief systems,
and world views that establishes symbols that
relate humanity to spirituality and to moral
values
 Tools of uniting people all over the
world on religious basis
 Books
 Movies
 Cellphone apps
 Social Networks
 Charity funds
 Special internet sites
 Religious schools
 Religious Perspectives on Globalization
A great many religious commentators understand
globalization as at once a largely economic, imperialistic,
and homogenizing process. They share the
economic/mass cultural/political perspective, evaluating
globalization as anywhere from a threatening challenge
to the manifestation of evil in our world. In many respects
globalization in this segment of the literature is a successor
term for what used to be censured as the capitalist system
or cognate terms.
 Religion and Religions in Globalization
 Certain approaches analyze religion as a global or transnational
institution, whose diverse manifestations operate to a large extent
independently of economic and political structures and that bind
diverse regions of the world together in ways comparable to
global trade, international relations, mass media, sport,
communications media, or tourism.
 A second but related focus of observation is the role that religious
systems play as powerful cultural resources for asserting identity
and seeking inclusion in global society, especially among less
powerful and marginalized populations. It is in this context that
religio-political movements, including so-called fundamentalisms,
receive the most focused attention