Religion 2020
Religion 2020
Objectives:
1. Explain how globalization affects religious practices and
beliefs
2. Analyze the relationship between religion and global
conflict, and conversely, global peace
Disclaimer:
We will not be arguing which is the REAL religion.
Definition of Terms Deculturalization of
Religion (Oliver Roy)
Secularization According to Roy, fundamentalist or
is understood as a shift in the overall more precisely revivalist movements
framework of human condition; it attempt to construct a “pure
makes it possible for people to have a religion” that sheds the cultural
choice between belief and non-belief. tradition in which past religious life
was immersed
Religious
“fundamentalism” Religious
It involves the semiotic or public
Transnationalism
‘flagging’ of confessional association Religion going global
without a concomitant practice.
Definition of Terms
Cultural Pluralism
(Stent, Hazard, and Rivlin, 1973)