The Most Recent Century - Religion and Global Modernity

The most recent century

Pg.: 1150-1163

Religion and Global modernity

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Beyond liberation and feminism a further dimension of cultural globalization took shape in the challenge of modernity presented to the world’s religion. To the most advanced thinkers of the past several hundred year’s enlightenment writers in the eighteenth century Karl Marx in the nineteenth socialist intellectuals and secular minded people in the twentieth supernatural religion was headed for extinction in the face of modernity science communism or globalization.

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Buddhism Christianity and Islam had long functioned as Trans regional cultures spreading far beyond their places of origin that process continued in the twentieth century Buddhist ideas and practices found a war reception the west as did yoga originally a mind body practice of Indian origin. Christianity spread widely in in Muslim Africa and South Korea and less extensively in parts of India. By the end of the century it was even growing in china.

Fundamentalism on a global scale

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Religions vitality in the twentieth century was expressed not only in the spread of particular traditions to new areas but also in the vigorous response of those traditions to the modernizing and globalizing world in which they found themselves. One such response was widely called fundamentalism a militant piety defensive assertive and exclusive that took shape to some extent in every major religious tradition. The scientific and secular focus of global modernity directly challenged the core beliefs of supernatural religion. Furthermore the social upset customary class capitalism industrialization and globalization thoroughly upset customary class family