Globalization and Religion

• A set of beliefs and practices that define the relations between human beings and the sacred or divinity.

  Religion
• A passionate inquiry about the meaning of life.

  Religiosity
• An act whereby a man reflects on the transcendental core of his being.

  Religious Act
• He defined religion as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

  Daniel Dennett
• Four Concepts of Religion


  Animism, Spiritism, Totemism, Mana
• a kinship between himself and the world


  Animism
• belief in the survival of consciousness after physical death and the possibility of communication between the living and the spirits of the deceased.

  Spiritism
• a belief system where a group of people identify themselves with, and derive their social identity from, a specific non-human entity, such as an animal, plant, or natural phenomenon.

  Totemism
• an animal or plant and serves as symbol for the group and is often associated with various customs, rituals, etc.

  totem
• the power or force by virtue of which peculiar effects are exerted.

  Mana
• Mana is a concept from Polynesian cultures that represents a spiritual and vital life force present in all living things and the natural world.
• belief in many gods

  Polytheism
• belief that all is god wherein the universe itself is divine

  Pantheism
• belief in one god

  Monotheism
• The creator of Hinduism

  Brahman
• god of love and the preserver of life

  Vishnu
• god of destruction

  Shiva
• What is Hinduism all about?

  Reincarnation
• to make him one with ultimate reality, the eternal, universal spirit in which there is no distraction

  The Aim of Hinduism
• human consciousness to divine consciousness

  Transmigration of Soul
• one’s thought, words and deed fixes one’s future existence


  Karma and Mukti
• everything a man does determines his destiny


  Law of Karma
• Karma and Mukti


  Hinduism
• Vedas


  Hinduism
• Four stages of life in Hinduism

  Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, Sanyaas
• 1-25 years old, bachelor or student phase of life


  Brahmacharya
• 26-50 years old, married life and duties of maintaining a household


  Grihastha
• 51-75 years old, retirement phase and handing over responsibilities to next generation

  Vanaprastha
• 76 years onwards, giving up material desires and prejudices, Wandering Ascetic stage


  Sanyaas
• creator of Christianity

  God
• founder of Christianity

  Jesus
• What is Christianity all about?

  Jesus as the son of God and savior of humanity
• There is only one God.


  Christianity
• Holy Trinity 


  Christianity
• Spreads Christ Messages and are considered legitimate successors of Peter and the Apostles.

  Popes and Bishops
• Christianity book of knowledge

  Holy Bible
• founder of Buddhism


  Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
• Buddhism believes in the state of inner peace and wisdom.


  Enlightenment
• the cessation of desire and hence the end of suffering


  Nirvana
• the law of cause and effect

  Karma