RELG 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Relativism, Nationstates, Religious Nationalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 331
• Professor: Samuel Nelson

Document Summary

Religion and globalisation: colonisation, secularisation, merges, con ict, legal pluralism, activism, relativism, spirituality in globalisation. Globalisation refers to the compression of the world and the intensi cation of the consciousness of the world as a whole. * a violation of right in one place is a violation of a right in all places . * globalisation through media + responses to that. Morality becomes complex in such a study and there would de nitely be struggles of multiculturalism. Globalisation is the intensi cation of interactions across national boundaries, particularly in trade and investment, but also in technology . He gave an answer on how religion ts into globalisation, saying that the world will be poorer, aimless, more dangerous, and fragile without a strong spiritual dimension. We are going to order our lives, around humans, around something (worship something, whether or not it is religion), and that makes us religious. Religious nationalism: religions and nations fusing over history.