Globalization of Religion

• Religion is the belief and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially God or gods.
• Buddhism and Hinduism are religions that did not descended from Abraham, and Jesus is not mentioned. These also believes in reincarnation.
• Yahweh is the name of God in Judaism
• Brahman is the name of God in Hinduism
• Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism are the 5 major religions in the world.
• Ascetics are people that shun anything material for complete simplicity-from their domain.
• Religion assures that there is “the possibility of communication between humans and the transcendent.”
• Globalism is much more concerned on how much human action can lead to the highest material satisfaction and subsequent wisdom that this new status produce.
• The main duty of religious people is to live a virtuous, sin-less life.
• Pedestrian is the skills of globalists, as they aim to seal trade deals, raise the profits of private enterprises, improve government revenue collections, protect the elites from excessively taxed by the state, and, naturally, enrich themselves.
• Evangelical missions are sent from the different religious sectors which aims to spread the word of God and gain more adherent, and they regard identities associated with globalism such as citizenship, language, and race, as inferior and narrow because they are earthy categories.
• membership to religious groups represents a superior affiliation that connects humans directly to the divine and the supernatural.
• isolationist justification is used by the Rizalistas of Mount Banahaw, Essenes during Roman-controlled Judea (Israel) and Mormons of Utah.
• Dalai Lama at age 15, assumed political power of Tibet.
• The Worship of a Divine Jose Rizal in Banahaw is organizations that have Rizal in common, but when it comes to their beliefs regarding the national hero, they can be widely divergent. Some of the sects, for example, believe that Rizal is a God; others think that he is just the son.
• ISIS-led revolution is an example of a religious community that justify their opposition to government authority on religious grounds.
• Peter Berger said that “far from being secularized, the “contemporary world is… furiously religious.”
• Malaysian Government places religion at the center of their political system. In their Constitution, it is clear that “Islam is the religion of the Federation,” and the rulers of each state was also the “Head of the religion of Islam.”
• Secular is a term relating to worldly or temporal
• Modern secular society was built in United States after religion and law were fused together.
• Nahdlatul Ulama is a moderate Muslim association in Indonesia that has Islamic schools where students are taught not only about Islam but also about modern science, the social sciences, modern banking, civic education, rights of women, pluralism, and democracy.
• he Church of England was shaped by the rationality of modern democratic and bureaucratic culture.
• King Henry VIII broke away from Roman Catholicism and established his own church to bolster his own power.
• Alexis de Tocqueville said “Not only the Americans practice their religion out of self-interest but they often even place in this world the interest which they have in practicing it.”
• Jose Casanova confirms this statement by noting that "historically, religion has always been at the very center of all great political conflicts and movements of social reform..."
• moral codes are codes that answer ranging from people's health to social conflict to even 'personal happiness'
• Daesh is popularly known as ISIS that signals religion's defense againts the materialism of globalization.
• Religion is a “pro-active force” that gives communities a new and powerful basis for identity.
• Christian fundamentalism is the belief that the text of the Bible was inspired by God. It is also a belief that every word in the Bible is literally true and cannot be contradicted by human beings.
• Islamic fundamentalists believe that the text of the Koran was literally dictated to their prophet Mohammed by the archangel Gabriel. Therefore, the teachings in the Koran cannot be contradicted by human authorities.
• ultra-Orthodox Jews are people that still abide by the dietary restriction found in the Jewish Bible.
• Hindu fundamentalists mostly revolves around creating a religious identity for the nation of India. This is a problem considering the large Muslim population in India.
• Religious fundamentalism may dislike globalization’s materialism, but it continues to use “full range of modern means of communication and organization.”
• secularization theory posited that modernization (or in other words, as countries develop) will erode religious practices.
• Samuel Huntington wrote “The Clash of Civilization” also writes that civilizations can be held together by religious worldviews.
• Max Weber observed the correlation between religion and capitalism as an economic system.
• Calvinism believed that God has already decoded who would and would not be saved.
• The World Council of Churches criticized economic globalization’s negative side.
• The Catholic Church condemned globalization’s “throw away culture” that is fatally destines to suffocate hope and increase risks and threats.
• moral arguments is the cause why religious people were able to justify their political involvement.