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    Lesson 17

    Globalization of
    Religion
    Lesson objectives
    At the end of this lesson, you should be able to;
    1.Revisit concept of religion
    2.Explain how globalization affect religious
    practices and beliefs; and
    3.Analyze the relationship between religion and
    global conflict and, conversely global peace.
    Definition of terms
     Religion – a unified system of beliefs and
    practices related to faith, the sacred,
    higher moral values
     Secularization – diminisihing role of
    religion in the society
     Globalization of religion – intermingling of
    universal and religious beliefs
    INTRODUCTION
    No doubt, when all we do is consider the formulas literally, these religious
    beliefs and practices appear disconcerting, and our inclanition might be to right
    them off to some sort of inborn aberration. But we must know how to reach
    beneath the symbol of grasp the reality it represents and that gives the symbol
    its true meaning. The most bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths
    translate some human need and some aspect of life, whether social or
    individual.

    - Emile Durkheim, “The Elementary Form of Religious Life”


    Size of Major Religios
    Groups, 2010
    There are more than 7 billion people in
    the world today, and almost 84 percent of
    these people (approximately 5.8 billion)
    identify themselves as part of a religious
    group, reveals a 2010 study by Pew
    Research Center (2012). The same study
    revealed that majority of these people are
    either Christians, muslims, or hindus,
    respectively. A huge minority expressed
    that they are unaffiliated, a little more
    than 16 percent.
    In new translation of Emile Durkheim’s (1992) Les
    formes elementaires de la vie religieuse: Le systeme
    totimique en Australie ( commonly referred to as
    formes) Karen Field (1995) iterated the sociologist
    definition of religion:

    "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices


    relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart
    and forbidden; beliefs and practices which unite into
    one single moral community called a Church, all those
    who adhere to them."
    Field continue explaning the three essential
    elements of this definition.
    First, religion defining as an “observable
    phenomena” which can studied subjectively.
    Second, it is construed as and organized and
    ordered system. Third, the sacredness of
    religious entities is collectively constructed in a
    social process toward a united “morel
    community” Formes, Field imparted was
    founded upon this definition.
    On the other hand, Kenneth Pargament, a
    psychologist specializing in the study of
    religion and psychological well-being,
    defined religion as “a process, a search for
    significance in ways related to the sacred”,
    distinguishing it from spiritually which is “a
    search for the sacred” for Pargament
    religion’s “most critical function”.
    Notwithstanding these scholarly construction of what
    religion is, people tend to their own and personal views
    of what religion is – much more subjective meaning that
    they associate with religion.
    Some affiliate with a religion because of affiliation
    motivation. Religion serves as an indicator of social
    proximity and, thus, provides a platform for social
    connection. Others affiliate with a religion as form of
    coping with stressful situations- what Paragment (1997)
    would refer to religious coping.
    Religion, here, provides some form of psychological
    shield that enables people to battle against the
    undesirable outcomes of their life challenges. There are
    also those who relate with religion as a spiritual
    experience- an outcome of the experience of the
    mystical and the divine and a celebration of their
    spirituality. And, yet again, some look at it as a
    mechanism promoting self-control and moral
    behaviors.

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