Religion In A Global Context

Question 1

India + economic development

Answer 1

Globalisation has bought rapid economic growth,and India become a more important player in global economics
Globalisation has created a huge, scientifically educated, urban middle-class in India, who work in IT and biotechnology which is tied closely into the global economic

India sends products across the world, for example of vaccinations, and these are precisely the people whom secularisation theory, predicts will be the first to abandon religion in favour of the secular worldview
This is because science and religion are not compatible

Question 2

India Ao3

Answer 2

However, a mass majority of this class continues to believe in the supernatural had been found at Indians are becoming more religious
Increasing religiosity is a result of their uncertainty about their newfound wealth

Which stems from tension between the traditional Hindu belief of materialism and the new prosperity of the middle classes
As a result, they give their wealth to charity, and donate to temples, which then makes them more religious

Question 3

Tiger economies

Answer 3

In East Asia countries, such as Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, have you become major players in the global economy

The sudden growth into the economy have given countries the name of economies

This shows that religious values can have a significant role in the growth of economies
Redding describes the values held by entrepreneurs in the tiger economies, follow the capitalist values

And that their post Confucian values encourage hard work, self discipline and frugality

This link to globalisation, because this believe it resulted in a developed globalised economy

Question 4

Brazil

Answer 4

Berger argues that Pentecostalism acts as a functional equivalent to Calvinism
And encourages the development of capitalism today, in the same way that Calvinism did in the 16th and 17th century

Latin American, Pentecostalists embrace a work, ethic and lifestyle similar to them of colonists, and this encourages members to become upwardly mobile

This links to globalisation as it has contributed to a more developed global economy in South Brazil, but not North Brazil

Question 5

Ao3 Brazil

Answer 5

Berger underlines, the point, that religious ideas, alone are not enough to produce economic development

Pentecostalism has grown into northern Brazil, but the region lacks resources, so it remains backwards