GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION IN THE WORLD.pptx

What is all about globalization of Religion?

1. GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION

2. RELIGION System of socially shared symbols, beliefs and rituals that is directed toward a sacred, supernatural realm and addresses the ultimate meaning of existence. It is from the Latin verb religare which means “to tie” or “to bind fast”. A contemporary scholar defines religion as “a system of beliefs, rituals, and practices usually institutionalized in one manner or another.

3. However, for its functional definition, religion is anything that provides an individual with the ultimate meaning that recognizes his/her entire life and worldview

4. RELIGION AND GLOBALIZATION

5. TYPES OF RELIGION CHURCH A religious organization that claims to possess the truth about salvation exclusively. It includes everybody or virtually everybody in a society. EXAMPLE: Catholic

6. SEC Perceives itself as a unique owner of the truth. It constitutes a minority in a given society. Recruitment takes place through conscious individual choice. DENOMINATION Oriented toward cooperation at least as it relates to other similar denominations. People join through individual and voluntary choice.

7. CULT Introduced in 1932 by sociologist Howard Becker Lanuza . A non-traditional form of religion, the doctrine of which is taken from diverse sources, either from non-traditional sources or local narratives or an amalgamation of both. Often attached to a religious group that society considers as deviant or non-traditional.

8. MAJOR RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD CHRISTIANITY The world’s largest religion with over 2.4 billion followers, and is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Its largest groups are the Roman Catholic Church, the eastern Orthodox churches and the Protestant churches. ISLAM The second largest religion with over 1.9 billion followers, and is based of the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. Allah is viewed as the sole God- creator, sustainer and restorer of the world.

9. HINDUISM Oldest religion with over 1.2 billion followers and is mainly practiced in India. BUDDHISM. Based on the teachings of Siddharta Gautama with over 535 million followers and is practiced in many parts of Asia. Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan, Buddhism has played a central role in the spiritual, cultural and social life of Asia.

10. JUDAISM Monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions.

11. IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION ON RELIGION The Modernist Perspective All secularizations would eventually look alike and the different religions would all end up as the same secular and “rational” philosophy. It sees religion revivals as sometimes being a reaction to the enlightenment and modernization.

12. 2. POST MODERNIST PERSPECTIVE It rejects the Enlightenment, modernist values of rationalism, empiricism, and science. Core value is expressive individualism. Largely hyper-secularism and it joins modernism in predicting and eagerly anticipating the disappearance of traditional religions. Globalization, by breaking up and dissolving every traditional, local, and national structure will bring about the universal triumph of expressive individualism.

13. 3. Pre- Modernist Perspective There is an alternative perspective, one which is post-modern in its occurrence, but which is pre-modern in its sensibility. Best represented and articulated by Pope John Paul II.

14. FORMS OF GLOCALIZATION INDIGENIZATION- connected with the specific faiths with ethnic groups whereby religion and culture were often fused into a single unit. VERNACULARIZATION- involved the rise of vernacular language endowed with the symbolic ability of offering privileged access to the sacred and often promoted by empires.

15. NATIONALIZATION- connected the consolidation of specific nations with confessions and has been a popular strategy both in Western and Eastern Europe. TRANSNATIONALIZATION- complemented religious nationalization by forcing groups to identify with specific religious traditions of real or imagine national homelands or to adopt a more universalist vision of religion.

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