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A WRITTEN REPORT
IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD
(GLOBAL MEDIA CULTURE &
THE GLOBALIZATION OF RELIGION)
Submitted by;
Blessie Ramos
Ree-Jane Macaraeg
Donalyn Iglesias
Rosemarie Acosta
BPA I-4
Submitted to;
Vilma Dalope
GLOBAL MEDIA CULTURES
Globalization - Is a process through which events, decisions, and activities in one
part of the world can come to have significant consequences for individuals and
communities in quite distant parts of the globe.
MARTIN KHOR – the former president of the third world networks in Malaysia,
considers globalization as a form of colonization.
Global media cultures - Explores the relationship between the media, culture
and globalization. The course approaches past and current challenges concerning
international communication and explores and problematizes the power of media
representation.
MEDIA - Are communication outlets or tools used to store and deliver information or
data.
• Prominent psychologists such as Sigmund Freud trained his student to view religion
as the “greatest of all neurotic illusions” and that its end would be upon the therapist’s
couch.
• According to Peter L. Burger, the core idea of secularization lies with the complete
understanding that “modernizations necessarily leads to a decline of religion, both is
society and the mind of individuals” – the dawdling death of religion.
• Rodney Stark- In his sociology of religion, there are five features of the imminent
death of religion following the rise of globalization.
a) Modernization is a causal engine dragging the Gods into retirement;
b) Secularization theory not only predicted the end of religion in terms of religious
institution as expressed in the separation of church and state and the decline of
authority of religious leaders, but also in the sphere of individual piety and
religiousness;
c) It is explicit that science has influenced mostly the death of religion in modern
secular society;
d) Secularization is an unstoppable and irreversible social force;
e) Secularization as a process is not only limited to Christianity or Christendom,
but also to other world religions and the global world.