Globalization and religion PDF

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1.) Explain how globalization affects the religious practices and beliefs. In providing a basis for the present revival and resurgence of religion, globalization has played a tremendous role. Even back then globalization has already helped religion, just like how the Spaniards brought religion to our country is a cause of it. Today, communication technology means of transport, and the media are considered to be essential means on which religious believers rely on the spread of their religious ideas. TV channels, radio stations, social media, and print media are now used by religious groups to advocate their religions. Transportation helped a wide variation of religions to cross different countries and be everywhere. Even though it has a positive effect, it has its bad sides. Religious people believe that because of globalization and modernization their religion would be secularized and it will manipulate their people’s belief in gods and damage the spiritual ways of life. As stated by them a superior association that binds humanity directly to the divine or supernatural spiritual being is membership in a religious community, organization, or cult. That’s why some religious groups isolate themselves from society and create a haven for them. This is to lessen distraction and also be far from the influence of globalization. 2.) Analyze the relationship between religion and global conflict and global peace.

If we come to think of it, religion is not a major cause of global conflict and it somehow can help to attain global peace. Religion is a personal collection of religious attitudes, values, and behaviors, or an institutionalized structure. Its creation strengthened the laws of countries. It created fear to us because it states that if we will ever make a sin, hell is the place where we would go for eternity. Then with the help of globalization, the modern world actually became more religious. It’s the reason why Religions such as Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism have become more critical and active. Not just only in the spiritual aspect, it also has become a foundation of the modern republic. Countries like Malaysia and Iran have Islam as their religion. Lastly, religion connects with its broken traditional ties that are caused by constraints of a nation-state, with the help of globalization. Muslims in the Middle East and Mindanao have coped with their economic circumstance. Though also because of globalization of religion it created the ISIS or Islamic State in the Middle East, which is a jihadist organization with a highly violent ideology, which asserts religious authority over all Muslims and calls itself a caliphate. They are considered a terrorist and even let their presences felt once in our country specifically in Zamboanga. History also tells us that religion has been used by our occupiers which are Spain and the United States of America so that they can present their colonization to us as a “calling” from God. There might be a possibility that they might use that strategy again but it’s has a slight chance. From these we can see that Religion is not the main cause of conflict it’s just that they use Religion as a guise for their hidden agenda....