Integration 3 Conceptualizations on Globalization

 Integer – complete or whole  Hyperglobalist – Argues that we live in

an increasingly global world; states are
Spirituality
being subject to massive economic and
 Latin root spiritus political changes.
 Questions o Capitalism and technology
 Breath of life drive globalization
 Personalized aspect of faith  Skeptical – resist the hyperglobalist; the
 40 definitions power of the state has not been
eroded.
Religion o State and markets drive
globalization
 Answers
 Transformationalists – created new
 Religare – to bind back
economic, political and social
 Formalized and institutionalized
circumstances that serve to transform
manifestation of faith
state powers
 31 definitions
o Combined forces of modernity
o Created the current
Four arching ideas unprecedented level of global
interconnectedness
 Inner self – Consciousness; key to
spiritual experience; individual realm Religion and Spirituality
 Meaning – for meaning in life
 Hindered the acceptance of new
 Interconnectedness – connectedness;
technologies
unity of all being
 Accelerated their propagation
 The Beyond – supreme power being
 Shaped the nature of trade
5 domains of Spirituality  Accelerated the globalization process

 Meaning in life Religious Evangelism

 Interrelatedness
 Contributed to foreign exploration and
 Wholeness
travel as has the hunt for gold or spices
 Morality
 Awareness of God ISKCON

Globalism  International Society for Krishna

 State of the world involving network of
interdependence at multicontinental
distances
Globalization and De-globalization
Consciousness
The lexus and the Olive Tree
 Thomas Friedman
 Olive Tree – Stability, home and family

 Increase or decrease of globalism

Technology-Religion  Individualized Spirituality
o User-oriented spiritual market
 Brought new understandings of religion
– a market which individual in
 Giving birth to novel religious and
response to his personal values
spiritual practices
and tries out those elements
Cyberspace which he finds most attractive
for mass of competing religions
 Realm in which people are seeking o Spiritual seekers – access to all
 Paradise kinds of spiritual products and
5 Trends in Contemporary Spirituality information
 Cyberspace and Spirituality
 Spirituality and Retteritorialization o Religion Online – one to many;
o Forging of Identity no interactivity involved
o Reinforcing one’s identity o Online Religion – mirrors the
o Vortex of time-place ideal interactive environment
compression – allows people to  Syncretic Spirituality
forge links with kindred spirits o Syncretism – draw together or
across continents combine
o Religious Fundamentalism – o Mixing of elements
going back to religious o Creation of a new belief system
fundamentals o Religious combination
 Spirituality and Transmodernity o Blending of faiths
o Emerging global culture
o Transmodernism – seeks to
bring together the best of
modernity
o Transmodernity – Keeping the
best of modernity but going
beyond it; negation of the
fragmented life dictated by
modernity
o Cultural creatives – rejected
the “more is merrier”
o Faith Popcorn – Clicking and
The Popcorn Report; predicted
that spirituality will become
more integral
o Transmodern spirituality – has
the potential to pave way
o Fundamentalists – people who
take their position very
important