Globalization and Religion - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Religion

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 23 pages of information about Globalization and Religion.

Globalization and Religion - Research Article from Encyclopedia of Religion

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 23 pages of information about Globalization and Religion.
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GLOBALIZATION AND RELIGION. Globalization refers to the historical process by which all the world's people increasingly come to live in a single social unit. It implicates religion and religions in several ways. From religious or theological perspectives, globalization calls forth religious response and interpretation. Yet religion and religions have also played important roles in bringing about and characterizing globalization. Among the consequences of this implication for religion have been that globalization encourages religious pluralism. Religions identify themselves in relation to one another, and they become less rooted in particular places because of diasporas and transnational ties. Globalization further provides fertile ground for a variety of noninstitutionalized religious manifestations and for the development of religion as a political and cultural resource.

Globalization

The term globalization is of quite recent provenance. It first appeared in the business and sociological literature of the 1980s, but by the...

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