Globalization of Religion Lesson 2 .pptx

Impact of Globalization on religion

1. Globalization of Religion

2. System of socially shared symbols, beliefs, and rituals that is directed toward a sacred, supernatural realm and addresses the ultimate meaning of existence.
from the Latin word “religare” which means “to tie” or “to bind fast” Religion

3. Types of Religious Organizations Church – a religious organization that claims to possess the truth about salvation exclusively. A classic example is the Roman Catholic Church. The church includes everybody or virtually everybody in a society. Membership is by childbirth: new generations are born into the church and qre formally inducted through baptism.

4. Sect – the sect also percieves itself as a unique owner of truth. However, it constitutes a minority in a given society. Recruitment takes place through conscious individual choice. Denomination – in contrast to the church and sect, the denomination is oriented toward cooperation, at least as it relates to other similar denominations.

5. Cult – introduced in 1932 by sociologist Howard Becker. A traditional form of religion, the doctrine of which is taken from diverse sources, either from non-traditional or local narratives or an amalgamation of both, whose members constitute either a loosely knit group or an exclusive group which emphasizes yhe belief in the divine element within the individual and whose teachings are derived from either a real or legendary figure.

6. New Religious Movements (NRMS) and Indigenous Religious Groups – came in 1960. It was an alternative label for cults that have been negatively portrayed by mass media and some social scientist. New age groups are considered part of these new religious movements.

7. Major Religions of the World 4,300 religions according to Adherents, an independent, nonreligious affiliated organization that monitors the number and sizes of the world’s religions.
5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children in 230 countries and territories where Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life conducted a geographic study, which is 84% of the world’s population in 2010 (Pew Research Center, 2012).

8. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are five of the biggest religions in the world.

9. Hinduism Originates on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief and ritual. It is the oldest living religion on Earth.

10. Buddhism Religion and philosophy that developed from the teachings of the Buddha (Sanskrit: Awakened One), a teacher who lived in northern India between the mid-6 th and mid-4 th century BCE.

11. Christianity Stemming from the life, teachings and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of God) in the 1 st Century AD.

12. Judaism Monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews.
It is the complex phenomenon of a total way of life for the Jewish people, comprising theology, law, and innumerable cultural traditions.

13. Islam Promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7 th Century CE.
Arabic term “ islam ” meaning surrender, meaning the believers of Islam (called Muslims) accepts surrender to the Will of Allah (Arabic term of God) who is viewed as a sole God- creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world. The sacred scripture is called Qur’an (Koran in English).

14. Impact of Globalization on Religion Globalization encourages religious pluralism.
Globalization provides fertile ground for a variety of non-institutionalized religious manifestations and for the development of religion as a political and cultural resource.

15. Perspective on the Role of Religion in the Globalization Process 1. The Modernist Perspective most intellectual and academic
Its view is that all secularizatione would eventually look alike and the different religions would all end up as the same secular and rational philosophy.
It sees religions revivals as sometimes being as reaction to the enlightenment and modernization.

16. 2. Post-Modernist Perspective core value is expressive individualism
can include “spiritual experiences” but only those without religious constraints.
Post-modernism is largely hyper-secularismb 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.

17. 3. The Pre-Modernist Perspective best represented and articulated by the Roman Catholic Church, especially by Pope John Paul II.
each religion has secularized on its own distinctive way, which has resulted on its own distinctive secular outcome.
suggests that even if globalization brings about more secularization, it will not soon bring about one common, global worldview.

18. Transnational Religion and Glocalization Transnational Religion – means of describing solutions to new found situations that people face as a result of migration and it comes as two quite distinct blends of religious universalism and local particularisms.
used to describe cases of institutional transnationalism whereby communities living outside the national territory of particular states maintain religious attachments to their home churches or institution.

19. Indigenization, Hybridization, or Glocalization - processes that register the ability of religion to mold into the fabric of different communities in ways that connect it intimately with communal and local relations.
Global-local or glocal religion represents a genre of expression, communication and individual identities. It involves the consideration of an entire range of responses as outcomes instead of a single master narrative of secularization and modernization.

20. Forms of Glocalization Indigenization – is connected with specific faiths with ethnic groups whereby religion and culture were often fused into a single unit. It is also connected to the survival of particular ethnic groups. Vernacularization – involved the rise of vernacular language endowed with the symbolic ability of offering privileged access to the sacred and often promoted by empires.

21. Nationalization – connected the consolidation of specific nations with particular confessions and has been a popular strategy both in western and eastern Europe. Transnationalization – complimented religious nationalization by forcing groups to identify with specific religious traditions of real or imagine national homelands or to adapt a more universalist vision of religion.

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