Week 12 Beliefs

Slide 4 Beginning of the mass production of books

Slide 5 Religion as a global interdependency – groups

Slide 6 The Role of Religion in Globalisation

Slide 7 Online test for hidden bias

beginning of the mass production of books

Johannes Gutenberg Gutenberg Bible was printed in Mainz around 1454-5

Current e-books – to - SMS

Religion manifests a culture

Religion is a personal, spiritual attitude. In most cases, each one's religion is a tradition. One is

"born" Christian, another one Jewish, another one Moslem, most often according to family roots. But in this multicultural world, people choose religion

apart from their family traditions.

Religious extremism

Religion and Middle Eastern politicssee religion in recent events

continued 15 reasons why Arabs hate the West

Taliban's Appeal see Global Connections

there are 19 major world religions which are subdivided into a total of 270 large religious groups, and many smaller ones. 75% of the adults in both the U.S. and Canada are Christians. ("The proportion of the [American] population that can be classified as Christian has declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001)

Major Religions of the WorldRanked by Number of Adherentshttp://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

Religion as a global interdependency – groups

World Religions

Missionaries - Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible The Catholic Church - Krishna movement – 1960s TM etc

http://www.alltm.org/Maharishi.html Sun Myung Moon, The Unification Church, Moonies,

http://www.unification.net/ http://www.unification.org/ The Baha’is http://www.bahai.org/ read The Struggle Towards Global

Consciousness http://www.bahai.org/article-1-9-1-5.html Wiccan, Witchcraft and Pagan knowledge Astrology – history 1, 2, 3 Mysticism as commonality in all religions see

The Role of Religion in Globalisation

nineteenth century, the insecurities produced by the French and the Industrial Revolutions resulted in the ideologies of nationalism and socialism.

twentieth century, the insecurities produced by defeats in the First World War resulted in the ideologies of Soviet communism and German National Socialism.

Previous to the 19th and 20th Century - Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counterreformation

the origins of Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism (the “world religions”) can be interpreted as responses and reactions to the deep insecurities produced by radical social disruptions.

Three Perspectives on Religion (1) the modernist

(2) the post-modernist

(3) the pre- modernist

World Religions

•Roman Catholic church

•The Hindu Response to Globalization