THE C ONTEMPORARY

WORLD

G L O BALIZATION
AND RELIGION
Prepared
by: DIWATA V.
DONATO
GROUP 5
FABIAN,
JOEDELYN
QUIMO,
KATRINA
VALDEZ,
JANNAH

Prepared
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
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GLOBALIZATIO
N
Networking and expansion of one’s local beliefs, products, and
practices into universal beliefs, products, and practices.
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RELIGIO
Nof the social-cultural system of
Is defined as a collection designated
behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, and worldviews that
generally relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and
spiritual elements.
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CHRISTIANIT
Christianity is anYAbrahamic
monotheistic religion based on the
life and teachings of Jesus of
Nazareth. It is the world's largest
religion with roughly 2.8 billion
followers representing one-third of
the global population.
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RELIGIO
N
 Secularization - a decline in the power of religion
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THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN RELIGION AND
GLOBALIZATION
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RELIGIO
N
The significance
of religious ties for
new transnational
immigrants.
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RELIGIO
N
The renewed
interest in the
relationship
between culture
and religion.
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GLOBAL
CONFLICT
• 1990s constituted a decade of social dissent linked
religious traditions
with

• America was regarded as the fount of secularism and

hence often the target
• United States’ economic interests in the oil reserves of the
Middle East led many Muslims to see America as a global
bully
• 9/11 terrorist attacks
• the goal of bin Laden and Al-Qaeda was not just to get
American influence out of Saudi Arabia but out of the
whole Muslim world
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GLOBAL
• US GlobalCONFLICT
War on Terror
• The war was also characterized as the ‘struggle against
radical Islam’.
• Many of the Muslim activists in Europe were inflamed not
only about European countries’ support for the US- led
military coalition in Iraq but also about European attitudes
toward the Muslim immigrant community.
• The jihadi image of warfare provided the moral
justification for terrorist attacks by linking real acts of
violence in the world with the divine struggle between the
forces of good and evil.
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GLOBAL
PEACE
Egypt and Tunisia - massive nonviolent
movements of largely middle class and
relatively young professionals who organized
their protests through Facebook, Twitter, and
other forms of electronic social networking.
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GLOBAL
PEACE
Philippines - the world witnessed a
dramatic demonstration of the power
of nonviolent resistance from the
peaceful overthrow of the Marcos
regime .
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GLOBALIZATION AND
RELIGION
Globalization brought three
problems:

Identity - how societies

could maintain a sense of
when
homogeneityethnic, cultural, and
linguistic communities were
spread across borders.
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GLOBALIZATION AND
RELIGION
Accountability - how the new
transnational economic, ideological,
political and communication
systems could be controlled,
regulated, and brought to justice.
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GLOBALIZATION AND
RELIGION

Security - how people could feel

safe in a world increasingly
without cultural borders or moral
standards.
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RELIGIO
N
Religion provides answers to
all three of these problems:

Identity – religion provides a

feeling of belonging .
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RELIGIO
N
Accountability – religion
provides a certainty that there
are moral and legal standards
inscribed in code.
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RELIGIO
N
Security – religion also offers
the notion that they are safe
within the community of the
faithful and uplifted by the
hands of God
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REFERENCE
S

Roudometof, V. (2014). Religion and Globalization. In M. B. Steger, P. Battersby,

&
J. M. Siracusa, The SAGE Handbook of Globalization (2014 ed., Vol. 1,
pp. 151-165). SAGE Public ations Ltd.

Juergensmeyer, M. (2014). Religion in Global Conflict. In M. B. Steger, P.

Battersby, & J. M. Siracusa, The SAGE Handbook of Globalization
(2014 ed., Vol. 1, pp. 759-770). SAGE Public ations Ltd.