Globalization and Religion

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"Hinduism" (1893) pg. 130-133)

If we see globalisation as an intensification of the industrial revolution in terms of technologies of communication, then there would seem to be a concomitant opportunity for the intensification of traditions through the alignment of practical concerns, particularly at the affective level, in bounded communities.

Globalization is a dynamic ongoing process of integration of the markets of the world, through the use of new technology. The driving idea is free market capitalism (9), but it is not limited to it. It is not just money; beyond the democratization of finances, is the democratization of information and technology. This has made possible that all countries of the world share market, information and technology, simultaneously, in a plan of equality, and that they may compete in a plan of equality.

This process has revolutionized the world, which is radically different from the world a century ago. Countries may be into this process, ...

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the human condition.

It was religion that first preached the idea of the oneness of humankind. More than 2600 years ago Zoroastrianism espoused the ideal of a single human family. And yet, as globalisation drives humankind towards some sort of interdependent world the voice and vision of religion has all but faded into oblivion. The religious vision of the unity of humankind has very little in common with the motives and goals of globalisation. For religion - and almost every major religion embody some notion of the oneness of the human family - the essence of universal unity is our common humanity derived in some instances from our faith in the one God.

Globalization, on the other ...

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