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 RELIGION GLOBALISM

• Concerned with the sacred • Places value on material

wealth
• Follows divine
commandments • Abides by human-made
laws
• Assumes that there is “the
possibility of communication • Globalism’s yardstick is how
between humans and the much of human action can
transcendent lead to the highest material
satisfaction and subsequent
wisdom that this new status
produces
 RELIGIOUS PEOPLE GLOBALISTS
• Less concerned with • Less worried about
wealth whether they will end up
in heaven or hell
• Aspires to becomes a
saint • Trains to be a shrewd
businessperson
• Detests politics and the
quest for power • Values them as both
means and ends to open
up further the economies
of the world
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 In actuality, the
S relationship between
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religion and globalism is
much more complicated.
R EA

PETER BERGER argues

that far from being
secularized, the
“contemporary world
is… furiously religious.
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In most of the world,
there are veritable
explosions of religious
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fervor, occurring in one
REA

form of another in all the

major religious
traditions- Christianity,
Judaism, Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism,
and even Confucianism.
  Religions are the foundations of
modern republics …

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini • Late Iranian religious

leader

• “there is no
fundamental distinction
among constitutional,
despotic, dictatorial,
democratic, and
communistic regimes.

• Islamic rule was the

superior form of
government because it
was spiritual.
KING HENRY VIII- broke away from
Roman Catholicism and established
his own Church to bolster his own
power.

In the United States, religion and

law were fused together to help
build this “modern secular
society”
 Religion for and against
Globalization

CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM

- “old world religions ”
- see globalization less as an
obstacle and more as an opportunity
to expand their reach all over the
world.
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.
Religion is thus not the
“regressive force” ; it is a “pro-
active force”.
 For a phenomenon that “is
about everything”, it is odd

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that globalization is seen to

O
have very little to do with
LUSI religion.

“After a night of prayer and soul-

C

searching, it was the duty of the

CON

United States to educate the

Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and
Christianize them, and by God’s grace
do the very best we could by them.”
-William McKinley