The Contemporary World

3. • A process refers to a larger phenomenon
that cannot simply be reduced to the
ways in which global market have been
integrated.
-Is usually refers to the integration of
the national market to a wide global
market signified by the increased free
trade.

5. • the belief in and worship of a superhuman
controlling power, especially a personal God or
gods.
• Religion may be defined as a cultural system of
designated behaviors and practices, morals,
worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies,
ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to
supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual
elements.

6. Tools uniting people all over the world on
religious basis:
• Books
• Movies
• Cellphone apps
• Social networks
• Charity funds

16. Religion much more than
culture, has the most
difficult relationship with
globalism

17. -First, the two are entirely contrasting belief
system.
-Religion is concerned with the sacred, while
globalism places values on material wealth.
-Religion follows divine commandments, while
globalism abides by human-made laws.
-Religion assumes that there is “the possibility of
communication between humans and the
transcendent.

18. -Religious people are less concerned with wealth
and all that comes along with it.
-They are ascetics precisely because they shun
anything material for complete simplicity from
their domain to the clothes they wear, to the food
they eat and even to the manner in which they talk.

19. • Religious person’s main duty is to live a
virtuous, sin-less life such that when
he/she is assured of a place in the other
world.

20. On the other hand, globalists are less
worried about whether they will end up in
heaven or hell. Their skills are more
pedestrian as they aim to seal trade deals,
raise profits of private enterprises, improve
government revenue collections, protect the
elites from being excessively taxed by the
state and naturally enrich themselves.

21. -Religious aspires to become saint; the globalist
trains to be a shrewd business person.
-Religious detects politics and the quest for power
for they are evidence of humanity’s weakness; the
globalist values them as both means and ends to
open up further the economies of the world.

22. • Finally, religion and globalization
clash over the fact that religious
evangelization is
in itself a form of globalization.

23. Religion for and Against
Globalization
Religion seeks to take the place of these broken
traditional ties to either help communities cope with
their new situation or organize them to oppose this
major transformation of their lives. It can provide
the groups moral codes that answer problems
ranging from people’s health to social conflict to
even personal happiness.

24. Religion is thus not the regressive force that
stops or slows down globalization; it is
a pro-active force that gives communities a new
and powerful basis of identity. It is
an instrument with which religious people can
put their mark in the reshaping of
this globalizing world, although in its own
terms.

25. Conclusion
• For a phenomenon that is about everything, it is odd that
globalization is seen to have very little to do with religion.
As Peter Bayer and Lori Beaman observed,
• Religion, it seems, is somehow outside looking at
globalization as problem or potential?

26. One reason for this perspective is
the association of globalization with
modernization, which is a concept
of progress that is based on science,
technology, reason and the law),

27. -With reason, one will have to look elsewhere than
to moral discourse for fruitful thinking about
economic globalization and religion;
-Religion, being a belief system that cannot be
empirically proven is. therefore, anathema to
modernization.
-The thesis that modernization will erode religious
practice is often called Secularization theory.