Religion in a global context
- Created by: WignallRose
- Created on: 17-05-17 14:14
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- Religion in a global context
- Religious fundamentalism
- Emerged as a major area of media and political concern
- Arises where traditional beliefs are threatened
- Key features:
- Authoritative sacred text = every word is true (Aldridge = needs interpretation)
- Us and them mentality = separate from world
- Aggressive reaction = draw attention using aggression
- Modern technology used to achieve aims
- Patriarchy = women's control is fixed
- Prophecy = relevance of prophecies today
- Conspiracy theories = hidden, evil powers in control
- Cosmopolitanism = constantly modifying (reflective thinking)
- Castells = two responses: resistence identity (defensive) & project identity (forward thinking)
- Lumps all types of fundamentalism together
- Different origins: West = reaction to change, Third = reaction to forced change (Bruce)
- Davie = secular fundamentalism emerged from attack of enlightenement project
- Growing pessimisim and uncertianty = loss of faith in ideologies
- Secular ideologies are past their sell by date (Davie)
- Growing pessimisim and uncertianty = loss of faith in ideologies
- Huntington = 'clash of civilisation' creates hostile us and them
- Portrays the whole of Islam as an enemy
- Inglehart and Norris = division between west and Islam is gender and sexuality
- Cultural defence
- Bruce = seems to unite a community against external threat
- Poland = church used as popular rally for opposition to communist party
- Iran = Iranian revolution led by religious leaders (changes from above)
- Religion and development
- Nanda = globalisation created prosperous educated urban middle class
- Continue to believe in supernatural
- Tention between traditional Hindu beliefs and new middle class
- New versions of Hinudism legitimates middle class
- Indians success in the global market due to 'Hindu values'
- Success of capitalism in East Asia played similar role to Calvinism
- Berger = Pentecostalism in Latin America is 'functional equivalent' to protestant ethic
- Christianity expanded out of Europe
- Lehmann = success of penticostalism due to incorporation of local beliefs
- Creates new local religious forms rather than replacing
- Lehmann = success of penticostalism due to incorporation of local beliefs
- Nanda = globalisation created prosperous educated urban middle class
- Religious fundamentalism
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