Globalization and religion

Group members
Aitazaz Ahsan
M. Noor ul Ain
Bilal Hussain
Said Nawab

GLOBALIZATION
Ongoing process, Universal Exchange or Communication of
1. Goods,
2. services,
3. People,
4. information,
5. Capital,
6. Fashion,
7. Languages,
8. cultures , etc.
Through Technology
across boarders,
into territories of others,
without limit.

the UN ESCWA (Economic and Social Commission
for Western Asia) describes it
as the economic phenomenon responsible for
reducing barriers to “the flow of goods, capital,
services and the movement of [labor]”
globalization may involve the movement and flow
of capital, goods, and technology, but it also involves
the flow of people, ideas, knowledge, and culture.

RELIGION
religion is just a set of beliefs structured to follow in that path in name of
god.
. Different community have different set of beliefs and different gods.
Latin word religare, which means “to tie, to bind.”
To bind which was broken first.
“Religion, then, consists of beliefs, actions, and institutions which assume
the existence of supernatural entities with powers of action, or impersonal
powers or processes possessed of moral purpose.”
Steve Bruce (1996)

Ole Preben Riis in "Methodology in the Sociology of Religion" (2011) says,
 religion is "a world view, an ideology, an organization, an attitude, a set of
values, as moods and motivations, or as an ethical disposition"

DIFFERENT RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD

WHEN DID GLOBALISATION
START TO INFLUENCE
RELIGION?
Columbus’ discovery of the Americas (Late 15th C) and Vasco da Gama’s
(16th century) rounding of Africa were
two of the most important events in recorded history.
Evolving trade routes led to the colonization of the Asia, Africa, Central and
South America.
•Religion became an integral part of colonization and later on globalization.
•Religion has been a major feature in some historical conflicts and the most
recent wave of modern terrorism.

RELIGION AND GLOBALIZATION HAVE A
CO-CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIP
Buddhism was the first great missionary faith; the Buddhists initially spread
from Northern India to Afghanistan and Bengal.
Then, via the Silk Road, it finally spread to China.
From China, the religion spread to Korea and Japan in the east, and then
back west to Tibet.
Buddhist missionaries from Kashmir also Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Silk was a product used extensively in Buddhist ceremonies.
Buddhist artifacts were often exchanged for Chinese textiles

PILGRIMAGE AND TOURISM VIS-
À-VIS
Pilgrimage—and tourism more broadly—remain a major force in the globalization of
culture even today.
massive movement of people, capital, and ideas across borders
Christians, like their Buddhist predecessors, are often engaged in pilgrimages to
holy sites
Dome in Palestine
Hajj
The hajj gives Muslims the opportunity to experience what John L. Esposito terms
“the underlying unity and equality of a worldwide Muslim community that transcends
national, racial, economic, and sexual differences.”

CRUSADES
27 November 1095, First Crusade
The crusades clearly illustrate the role of Christianity as a driving
force in globalization.
Some historians believe that the crusades were “Europe’s first
colonial wars, a kind of proto-imperialism visited on the Muslim
people”.
The crusades were, first and foremost, a pilgrimage to Jerusalem,
which, as Christianity’s holiest site, was the object of the First
Crusade.
women, the sick, and the poor, for example joined and traveled to the
Middle East because the crusade was preached and framed, not as a
war, but as a pilgrimage

HOMOGENIZATION AND THE
GLOBALIZATION BACKLASH
The homogenization thesis suggests that globalization will lead to a
linguistic, religious, and cultural convergence that ultimately reduces diversity
everywhere.
Scholte points out that indigenous people’s heritages are being erased, and
that languages are dying at a rate as alarming as animal extinction.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order: different
civilizations rise and fall, merge and divide, and even end up “buried in the
sands of time.” Historically speaking, there have been as many as twenty-
four unique civilizations, but today that number has fallen to eight.
Friedman suggests this is a result of globalization creating a single, uniform
global market place.

Its “huge economies of scale that reward doing the same business or
selling the same product all over the world all at once” homogenize
global patterns of consumption.
Resultantly, different places all over the world are starting to look
alike: whether it is Qatar or Kansas,Taco Bell, MTV, Disney, Marriott,
McDonalds, and Microsoft are nigh omnipresent.
Americanization subverts non-Western cultures by “encouraging
people to buy American goods and services,” which ultimately
“undermines deep-rooted communal values”.
Example; Ship & Its Elements.

COMMON SOURCES TO
PERPETUATE
ISLAMOPHOBIA

MISREPRESENTATION OF
MUSLIMS IN VIDEO GAMES

Anti-Masjid & Anti-Shariah Campaigns
Biased Websites & Literature (SALMAN RUSHDIE)
www.islamist-watch.org/
www.jihadwatch.org/
www.actforamerica.org/
All these provide misinformation about Islam &
Demonizing Muslims

asked about #Islam, the mosque he
attends, whether he prays, and his views
on other religions. He was also asked to
recite verses from the Quran

A Muslim family recently moved into
their new property in #Hamburg,
#Germany. Someone left them a
welcoming present in their mailbox
Pig's feet

AFTER GRAVITATIONAL FORCE,
PERSONAL INTEREST BOND IS HIGH
Dhaka,
Bangladesh

EXPANSION OF TERRORISM ON RELIGIOUS BASIS
 ISIS has enlisted thousands of foreign fighters through its online activities.
Twitter, for instance, suspended 360,000 accounts in 2015-16 that
threatened or promoted terrorist activities.
Huffington post, January, 2017
The Taliban has been active on Twitter since May 2011, and has many
thousand of followers.
Telegraph, UK, 2014
Facebook is a key platform to gather young fans, supporters and recruits to
incite them to acts of violence by the means of propaganda and the use of
Islamic grievance.
The Conversation, 2015

Afghan-Soviet War, recruitment of Pakistanis in Taliban
Myanmar Genocide
During the 2002 Miss World Beauty Pageant in Nigeria, bloody religious
demonstrations and riots by Muslim fundamentalists in the Nigerian state of
Kaduna claimed over 100 lives. The riots were triggered on November 20
when protesting Muslim youths burned down a newspaper office for a
'blasphemous' article which suggested that Prophet Mohammed would have
liked to marry a Miss World beauty queen (The Straits Times, 2002)
Syria
Iran
Yamen

TOOLS OF UNITING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE
WORLD ON RELIGIOUS BASIS
1. Books
2. Movies
3. Mobile Application
4. Social Networking Sites
5. Charity Funds
6. Special Internet Sites
7. Religious Schools
8. Religious Organizations
9. Religious Conferences
10. Religious Preaching System (Tableegh)
11. Religious Holidays
12. Religious Events

RELIGION VS.
GLOBALISATION
globalization as a threat to religion
A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is
set for extinction, say researchers.
BBC report, March 2011.
Christianity is on a slow but steady decline. If you look all over Europe you
will see empty churches, poor attendance because in general people are
allowing their faith to lapse while some are actively rejecting it. However, the
number of people taking up the Muslim faith is rising.

THE RESULTS OF
GLOBALISATION
SECULARIZATION
RELIGIOUS
CONSERVATISM

SECULARIZATION
•Society becomes increasingly modern, religion becomes less and less
important.
•A decline in religious practices within modern societies.
•Religious institutions become separated from secular institutions and
spheres of influence.
•Religion has retreated into the private sphere.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO RESOLVE
RELIGION BASED ISSUES
Realistically and practically: - Diplomatic pressure on
suppressor country by majority countries.
- Expel country’s diplomats and ambassadors if advice and
pressure falls on deaf ears.
- Collective boycott by the majority world. - Potentially
freeze or stall ongoing economic and military agreements
with that country.
- Media outlets in the majority world start covering the
plight of the Dilemma as they do with other .

- start raising awareness the general masses by
1. holding events,
2. addressing masses,
3. sign petitions,
4. write to the relevant country’s embassy and local MPs,
5. attend demonstrations.
6. - The day nation state borders are no longer obstacles for
any states and leaders to have the courage to militarily
intervene (or apply real pressure).

CONCLUSIONS
●Religion is definitely the integral part of globalization, thus they
should not be studied separately
●●The globalization is a reason to integrate the society around the
world including the religion issue.
●Multiculturalism, immigration
●An increased understanding and respect, as well as hate for other
cultures and religions.
●However, religion-based conflicts are on the rise.

Globalization has helped a lot in mixing different cultures’
people together. People migrate from here and there in
search of better quality life, jobs, education, business and
different other purposes.
This builds a society with different religion living together.
Just like every coin have two sides this mixing of religion
also have pros and cons. Sometimes it gives rise to a
conflict. Pakistan/India conflict is an example of religious
conflict between Hindus and Muslim.
But it always don’t give rise to conflict, it has benefits also.
It builds a community and base of support to individuals and
it helps to understand each other religion and respect each
other religion.

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