1.
Religion and Global Conflict
1st stage
Revolt against Global
Secularism
A religious rebellions
happened. Variety of groups
like – Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh,
and Muslim were against
what they call “moral failing
of the secular state”. Secular
authorities treated these
rebellious religious
movements simply as
attempts to steal power
4th stage
Global War
In the first decade of the 21st
century there was an increase of
expansion in the scope of the
imagined contestation between
secular and religious forces seen
in the global frame. In September
11 there was a series of jihadi
terrorist attacks. All of them were
aimed at bringing to public
consciousness the notion that
the world was at war. US leader
adapted the jihadi terms. The
cold war exploded into a real war
in 1990.
2. Religion and Global Peace
Religion and
Global Conflict
Five stages
3rd stage
The Invention of Global
Enemies
The cold war between
religious and secular politics
was characterized by a
growing anti-American and
anti-European sentiment in
the 1990s. The religious
activist change their target
from local regimes to
international centers of
power. There was a social
argument linked with
religious traditions of
various kinds like, Judaism,
Christianity, and Buddhism
as well as Islam of both
Sunni and Shi'ite.
2nd stage
Internationalization
Of Religious Rebellion
In this stage Afghan war was
developed. In one central
theatre of involvement,
activists were brought
together from throughout
the Muslim world. The
Jewish religious politics of
Israel was also affected by
the international
developments in early 1980s.
Israel also had an impact on
the radical Muslim activism
in Israeli- controlled regions
and nearby.
5th stage
Religious Dimensions Post-
Arab Spring
Many Egyptian activist have
assumptions that their acts of
terrorism – against the regime and
against the ‘far enemy’ of America
would eventually lead to a massive
revolt that would bring the
dictatorship to an end. They also
thought that only the jihadi
ideology of cosmic warfare
provided the moral legitimacy for
the struggle. But they are proven
to be wrong

First is identity, how societies
could maintain a sense of
homogeneity when ethnic,
cultural, and linguistic
communities were spread
across borders, in many cases
spread across the world.
For the first problem
identity. Religious
community provide a
sense of identity, a feeling
of belonging to those who
accept that fellowship as
primary in their lives.
3. Global Conflict and Global Peace
Religion and
Global Peace
3 problems in
globalization
Second is accountability, how
era
the new transnational
economic, ideological, political
and communication systems
could be controlled, regulated,
and brought to justice.
Third is security, how people
buffeted by forces
seemingly beyond anyone's
control could feel safe in a
world increasingly without
cultural borders or moral
standards.
Answered by
religion
For the second problem
And because of these accountability. Traditional
three reasons religion religious leadership provides
also provide a sense a sense of accountability, a
of security, the notion certainty that there are
that within the
community of the moral and legal standards
faithful and uplifted by inscribed in code and
the hands of God, enforced by present-day
one has found safe leaders who are accorded an
harbor and is truly
secure. unassailable authority.
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