Contemp 1

• Culture


  Unified style of human knowledge, beliefs, and behavior from which people learn, and the ability to communicate knowledge to the next generations
• Culture's development has been mainly influenced by media
• Stages of media development

  1. Oral communication

  2. Invention of script

  3. Printing press

  4. Electronic media

  5. Digital media
• Oral communication led to markets, trade, and cross-continental trade routes
• Script allowed permanent codification of economic, cultural, religious, and political practice
• Printing press allowed continuous production, reproduction, and circulation of print materials
• Electronic media includes the telegraph, telephone, radio, film, and television
• Digital media relies on digital codes, can be created, modified, and stored in any digital electronic device, and is transmitted over the internet and computer networks
• Media


  Carrier of culture, tool for interaction of people with different cultures
• Outcomes of the influence of globalization on culture

  • Cultural differentialism
  • Cultural convergence
  • Cultural hybridity
• Cultural differentialism


  Views cultural difference as immutable
• Cultural convergence


  Globalization engenders growing sameness of cultures
• Cultural hybridity


  Globalization spawns an increasing and ongoing mixing of cultures
• Glocalization reinforces the fact that local cultures are not weak, state, or fixed, they are built and understood anew each day in a globalized World
• Religion plays a vital role in the lives of Filipinos for their values are anchored on it
• Globalization of religion


  Worldwide interconnectedness of all areas of contemporary social life, affecting religion in various ways
• Ways globalization has affected religion

  • Rise of religious nationalism
  • Turn of religion into public life
  • Proliferation of international terrorism
  • Increase of individual religiosity
• Religious nationalism


  Nationalism closely associated with particular religious beliefs and affiliations
• Increase of individual religiosity


  Individual's need to rely on his or her beliefs and relationship with the Supreme Being
• Deterritorialization of religion


  Appearance of religious traditions in places where these previously had been largely unknown or considered a minority
• Global migration has resulted in the Easternization of the West, with a rise in the number of believers of Asian religions like Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism
• Religion is influenced by global trends and impulses and is forced to respond to newfound situations, such as the use of social media for evangelization
• Models of global-local religion

  • Vernacularization
  • Indigenization
  • Nationalization
  • Transnationalization
• Vernacularization


  Blending of universal religions with local languages
• Indigenization


  Transforming a universal religion to suit the specifics of a particular ethnic group
• Nationalization


  Constructing a link between the nation and church, with religious institutions relating to national identities and realities
• Transnationalization


  Complementing religious nationalization by focusing groups on identifying specific religious traditions of real or imagined national homelands
• Religion has been a source of both global conflict and peace
• Extremists believe that radical measures are necessary in achieving the will of God, while fundamentalists believe that men ought to return to the very passages of the sacred books to legitimize their actions
• Religion also plays a vital role in humanity's search for world peace, with its teachings of moral principles and values being necessary tools for the abatement of avarice, abhorrence, and illusions that are the root causes of conflicts
• Religious peacemakers do their task concerning humanitarian assistance and faith-centered intervention, such as World Vision and the role of Pope Francis in the US-Cuba deal
• Religion


  It plays a vital role in the lives of Filipinos for their values are anchored on it
• Religion


  • It has affected our attitudes, characters, and perspective in life
• Globalization


  It is one of the areas of contemporary social life which entails personal or organized systems of religious beliefs and practice
• Christianity and Globalization


  To what globalization effect on religion when crafting a law is anchored on the lawmaker's belief in
• When is the declared Philippine National Bible Day

  Every last monday of January 2018
• Religions focuses more on the social concerns of the poor and the oppressed

  It happens inside and outside of the church
• Religious Extremism


  It is a type of political violence anchored on the belief that Supreme Being grants violence in the act of glorifying one's faith
• Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)


  • An extremist group which triggered the locals of Mindanao to launch the Marawi Siege for five months
• Increase of Individual religiosity


  The effect of religious globalization wherein the individuals need to rely on his/her beliefs and relationship with the Supreme Being