GLOBALIZATION of RELIGION

MA. JESSICA P. DE GUZMAN

 RELIGION
 a particular system of faith and worship.
 a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance
 Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and
practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or
organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual
elements.

What is?
GLOBALIZATION
 the process by which businesses or other organizations
develop international influence or start operating on an
international scale.
 1. Way in which globalization flattens out
cultural differences, erodes local
customs and beliefs, and spreads a
secular, capitalist way of life that is at
odds with religions of all sorts
Worldly, temporal

2. way in which religion serves as the source

RELIGION & of globalization’s greatest resistance and as a
haven for those standing in opposition to its
GLOBALIZATION ubiquitous yet often subtle power.

Global, universal, worldwide

In both of these views, the relationship between religion and globalization is

antagonistic— struggle and conflict.
 Struggle and Conflict

RELIGION- is concerned with

the sacred
GLOBALIZATION- place value on
Material Wealth
 RELIGION GLOBALISTS

Follow divine commandments Abides human made law

Assumes possible communication The link between human and divine

between humans and confers social power
Transcendence

God judges human actions in moral Human action can lead to highest
term material satisfaction

It detest politics and quest for power Globalists values them as means and
ends to open further the economies
of the world
 Religion and
Globalism clash
over the fact that
religious
BUT… evangelization in
itself is a form of
globalization
 Rising religious fundamentalism as people feel
culturally threatened by an influx of ‘strange’
cultural factors resulting from the increasingly
multicultural societies triggered by globalization.

the movement of people and information across

Effects of national borders increases the rate of social and
cultural liberalization resulting in potential
GLOBALIZATION loosening of traditional religious structures.

of The rise of nationalism as a counter pressure to

RELIGION globalization may put pressure on ethnic/religious
diversity in some countries.

The ease of information flow also allows the rapid

movement of religious proselytizing across the world.

SEEK, MAKE, CONVERT, PREACH

 “Far from being secularized, the
contemporary world is furiously religious.”
Religions are the
foundation of
Modern Republic
SPREAD OF
RELIGION
 Example of how religion was used as a tool to show power
GLOBALLY
Priestesses and Monks Led the first revolts against colonialism in Asia and
Africa
Malaysian Government Placed religion at the centre of political system, their
constitutions states that “ISLAM IS THE RELIGION
OF THE FEDERATION, AND THE RULER OF
EACH STATE IS THE HEAD OF THE RELIGION
ISLAM”

Ayatollah Khomeini ( Iran) Islamic rule was the superior for of government because
it was spiritual. ( He led the Iranian revolution that turned
the country into a theocracy.
Spaniards Colonized the Philippines for than 300 years
The rise of
RELIGION FOR AND AGAINST
GLOBALIZATION
 TWO RELIGIONS THAT SEE CHRISTIANITY
GLOBALIZATION NOT AN
OBSTACLE BUT AS OPPORTUNITY
TO EXPAND AND REACH THE
WORLD
ISLAM

GLOBALIZATION HAS FREED COMMUNITIES FROM THE CONSTRAINTS OF THE

NATION-STATE, BUT IN THE PROCESS ALSO THREATEND TO DESTROY THE CULTURAL
SYSTEM THAT BIND THEM TOGETHER. RELIGION SEEKS TO TAKE PLACE OF THE
BROCKEN TRADITIONAL TIES …..
TO EITHER HELP THE COMMUNITIES TO ORGANIZED THEM TO OPPOSED
TO COPE WITH THEIR NEW THE MAJOR TRANSFORMATION OF
OR
SITUATION THEIR LIVES

RELIGION IS NOT A REGRESSIVE FORCE THAT SLOWS DOWN

GLOBALIZATION BUT A PRO ACTIVE FORCE THAT GIVES THE
COMMUNITY A NEW AND POWERFUL BASIS OF IDENTITY. IT IS THE
INSTRUMENT IN WHICH THE RELIGIOUS PEOPLE CAN PUT THEIR MARK IN
RESHAPING THIS GLOBALIZING WORLD IN ITS OWN TERM.
 Religious fundamentalism may dislike
globalization’s , materialism but it continues to
used the modern means of communication and
organization that is associated with economic
transformation

1. It has tapped fast long distance transport of

communication
2.Availability of English as a global vernacular of
unparalleled power
3. The know how of modern marketing and
management w/c enabled the spread of religious
forms across the globe in all sorts of direction
 The proliferation of born again group like the case of Islam
and Daesh (more popularly known as ISIS or the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria) signals religious defence against the
materialisation of globalization

These fundamentalist
organizations are the
result of the spread of
globalization and both
find ways to BENEFIT or
TAKE advantage of each
other
 WORLD CATHOLIC ISLAM LUTHERAN
COUNCIL OF CHURCH WORLD
CHURCHES FEDERATION
( Protestants)
“we as churches Throw away Hiding like a Members use to
are accountable culture that is Trojan horse guide their
to the victims of fatally destined supporting opposition, as a
the project of the to suffocate hope liberalism and result of
economic and increase risk western values to globalization our
globalization by and threats eventually world is split
becoming the displaced Islam usander by
latters advocates forces we don’t
inside and understand the
outside the contrast between
centers of those who
power” benefit and those
who are harmed
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