Religion has a complex relationship with globalization. While globalization focuses on economic integration and material wealth, religion is concerned with spiritual matters and living according to divine principles. Some ways religion clashes with globalization include having different values, forms of communication, and life priorities. However, religion can also help communities cope with the changes brought by globalization by providing identity and moral guidance. So religion is both a force against and a proactive force shaping the globalized world. One reason globalization is seen as having little to do with religion is that globalization is associated with modernization, which is based on reason and science rather than moral or spiritual discourse.
Religion has a complex relationship with globalization. While globalization focuses on economic integration and material wealth, religion is concerned with spiritual matters and living according to divine principles. Some ways religion clashes with globalization include having different values, forms of communication, and life priorities. However, religion can also help communities cope with the changes brought by globalization by providing identity and moral guidance. So religion is both a force against and a proactive force shaping the globalized world. One reason globalization is seen as having little to do with religion is that globalization is associated with modernization, which is based on reason and science rather than moral or spiritual discourse.
Religion has a complex relationship with globalization. While globalization focuses on economic integration and material wealth, religion is concerned with spiritual matters and living according to divine principles. Some ways religion clashes with globalization include having different values, forms of communication, and life priorities. However, religion can also help communities cope with the changes brought by globalization by providing identity and moral guidance. So religion is both a force against and a proactive force shaping the globalized world. One reason globalization is seen as having little to do with religion is that globalization is associated with modernization, which is based on reason and science rather than moral or spiritual discourse.
ways in which global market have been integrated. -Is usually refers to the integration of the national market to a wide global market signified by the increased free trade. • the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. • Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. Tools uniting people all over the world on religious basis: • Books • Movies • Cellphone apps • Social networks • Charity funds Religion much more than culture, has the most difficult relationship with globalism -First, the two are entirely contrasting belief system. -Religion is concerned with the sacred, while globalism places values on material wealth. -Religion follows divine commandments, while globalism abides by human-made laws. -Religion assumes that there is “the possibility of communication between humans and the transcendent. -Religious people are less concerned with wealth and all that comes along with it.
-They are ascetics precisely because they shun
anything material for complete simplicity from their domain to the clothes they wear, to the food they eat and even to the manner in which they talk. • Religious person’s main duty is to live a virtuous, sin-less life such that when he/she is assured of a place in the other world. On the other hand, globalists are less worried about whether they will end up in heaven or hell. Their skills are more pedestrian as they aim to seal trade deals, raise profits of private enterprises, improve government revenue collections, protect the elites from being excessively taxed by the state and naturally enrich themselves. -Religious aspires to become saint; the globalist trains to be a shrewd business person.
-Religious detects politics and the quest for power
for they are evidence of humanity’s weakness; the globalist values them as both means and ends to open up further the economies of the world. • Finally, religion and globalization clash over the fact that religious evangelization is in itself a form of globalization. Religion for and Against Globalization Religion seeks to take the place of these broken traditional ties to either help communities cope with their new situation or organize them to oppose this major transformation of their lives. It can provide the groups moral codes that answer problems ranging from people’s health to social conflict to even personal happiness. Religion is thus not the regressive force that stops or slows down globalization; it is a pro-active force that gives communities a new and powerful basis of identity. It is an instrument with which religious people can put their mark in the reshaping of this globalizing world, although in its own terms. Conclusion • For a phenomenon that is about everything, it is odd that globalization is seen to have very little to do with religion. As Peter Bayer and Lori Beaman observed, • Religion, it seems, is somehow outside looking at globalization as problem or potential? One reason for this perspective is the association of globalization with modernization, which is a concept of progress that is based on science, technology, reason and the law), -With reason, one will have to look elsewhere than to moral discourse for fruitful thinking about economic globalization and religion; -Religion, being a belief system that cannot be empirically proven is. therefore, anathema to modernization. -The thesis that modernization will erode religious practice is often called Secularization theory.