TCW 1.4

• is a personal or institutionalized set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity. dimension?

  Religion and Religious Dimension
• It is the most important defining element of any civilization as contrasted with race, language, or way of life

  Religion
• it is also portrayed as a defining element in future conflicts.

  Religion
• is certainly central to much of the strife currently taking place around the globe

  religion
• is a religious response to the materialist assault by the ungodly West in the rest of the world. dimension?

  Jihadist globalism and Religious Dimension
• Coming out of what they consider a pure form of Islam, its disciples seek to destroy all those alien influences that have been imposed on Muslim people.

  Jihadist globalism and Religious Dimension
• It applies to those extremely violent strains of religion that convert the global imaginary into very concrete political agendas and terrorist tactics

  Jihadist globalism and Religious Dimension
• It is also applied to those violent fundamentalists in the West who seek to transform the world into a Christian Empire

  Jihadist globalism and Religious Dimension
• There are eight (8) principles that summarize the Roman Catholic Teachings

  Commitment to universal human rights, Commitment to the social nature of the human person, Commitment to the common good, Solidarity, Preferential option of the poor, Subsidiary, Justice, and Integral Humanism
• affirms that membership in the human family means that all bear responsibility for one another. dimension?

  principle of Solidarity and Religious Dimension
• In the _______ - Christ God became poor for us so as to enrich us by his poverty. The poor are susceptible to the effects of environmental irresponsibility because they live in countries where cheap building materials and cheap labor are readily available. They regularly work in farming, fishing, and forestry, areas which suffer environmental damage. Dimension?

  Theology of the Incarnation and Preferential option of the poor and Religious Dimension
• The Catholic Church teaches that decisions should be made at the lowest level in order to achieve the common good. Dimension?

  Subsidiary and Religious Dimension
• is concerned with whole person

  Integral Humanism and Religious Dimension
• Justice is divided in three (3) categories:

  Commutative justice, Distributive justice, and Social justice
• This aims at fulfilling the terms of contracts and other promises on both personal and social level

  Commutative justice
• This ensures a basic equity in how both the burden and the goods of society are distributed and that ensures that every person enjoys a basically equal moral and legal standing apart from differences in wealth, privilege, talent and achievements

  Distributive justice
• This refers to the creation of the conditions in which the first two categories of justice can be realized and the common good identified and defended.

  Social justice
• According to ______, a ______ is one which these forms of justice are assured because they are required by human dignity.

  catholic teaching and just society
• _____ is a system of widely shared ideas, beliefs, norms and values among a group of people

  Ideology
• It is often used to legitimize certain political interests or to defend dominant power structures.

  Ideology
• _____ connects human actions with some generalized claims

  Ideology
• is a social process of intensifying global interdependence. Dimension?

  Globalization and Ideological Dimensions
• is an ideology that gives the concept of neo-liberal values and meanings to globalization. Dimension?

  globalism and ideological Dimensions
• Major Ideological Claims of Advocates of Globalism

  Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets, Globalization is inevitable and irreversible, Nobody is in charge of globalization, Globalization benefits everyone, and Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world.
• The problem with this claim is that liberalization and integration of markets happen through political project of engineering free markets by interference of centralized state power, and it is in contrast to the neoliberal ideal of limited role of governments.

  Globalization is about the liberalization and global integration of markets
• believe that spread of market forces driven by technological innovations is inevitable in globalization

  Globalization is inevitable and irreversible and Globalist
• use this claim to convince people to adopt the natural discipline of the market if they want to prosper, which implies the elimination of government controls over the market

  Neoliberals and Globalization is inevitable and irreversible
• This claim seeks to depoliticize the public debate on globalization and neutralizing anti -globalist movements

  Nobody is in charge of globalization
• Globalists talk about the benefits of market liberalization such as rising global living standards, economic efficiency, individual freedom, and technological progress. But the reality is that the opportunities of globalization are spread unequally and power and wealth are concentrated among a specific group of people, regions and corporations.

  Globalization benefits everyone.
• For the globalists democracy and free markets are not synonymous. T OR F

  False
• The neoliberal explanation of globalization is ideological because it is politically motivated and contributes to the construction of particular meanings of globalization which stabilize existing power relations

  Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world
• Globalism tries to create collective meaning and shape people’s identities.

  Globalization furthers the spread of democracy in the world.