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Download Contemporary World of Arts and more High school final essays Art in PDF only on Docsity! A world of ideas and globalization Essential Question: How religion affects globalization? In history, religion find its way to institutionalized itself from being part of the phenomenon of nature to a monumentally organized system of beliefs. But the environment where natural phenomenon coexist that it is very hard to comprehend without science. Natural phenomenon such as thunders, volcanic eruption, typhoons, earthquakes and lightning that have made the prehistoric men struck with curious minds and as they witness this natural occurrences, they might feel fear, anxious and stress that might lead to their death. The prehistoric men as they continue to live with these phenomena they continue to wonder on how they are happening until they see their own reflection from waters, the moon and sun, the skies and clouds, even the stars. Even terrestrial formation such as mountains, valley and trees which is being referred to pareidolia in modern psychology. There are 2 kinds of pareidolia, the apophenia and pareidolia. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomena whereas the mind of an individual responds to stimulus, usually an image or a sound by receiving a familiar pattern where non exist. (Given example is the trending fire in star city that they're satanic face in the smoke but you don’t believe in it because those faces are only part of imagination and doesn't really exist.) And the apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena. (Given example is the trending fire in star city that there are satanic face in the smoke and you as an individual you believe that there is a satanic face that causes the fire.) And as a human, you might question yourself “is pareidolia a mental disorder?” “how about apophenia?” the answer is pareidolia is NOT a mental disorder it is a pattern-matching ability while apophenia describe as a patients suffering from a certain mental illness. And with these appearances, prehistoric men gave an idea that there might forces in control of supernatural beings. Being who are in their likeness, emotions like happiness, sadness, contentment, jealousy and kindness. And later on, the supernatural beings the early men believe might be pleaded through sacrifices and offering. As time passes by, men made variety of rituals, monuments, infrastructures and religion to please these supernatural beings who have many names, persona, likes and dislikes and sometimes commandments. Furthermore, with the globalization of free-flow of information by means of technology and movement of people across borders can help positively help religious tolerance to increase. The religious unity is mentioned in all religion doctrines but unfortunately the events of history up until the present day has unfolded, instead they emphasis differences than similarities. The holy verses, perhaps we can shift from religious harmony as a conception to materialize it into reality. As Holy Quran says, “O mankind, we have created you male and female, and have made you races and tribes, that you may know each other.” (Al Quran 49:13) In Judaism, it is stated that “Seek peace and pursue it....... Seek it where you are and pursue it in other places as well....." (Psalm 34:15) In Old testament, it states “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.” (Matt. 5:44) "May god.... Grant you to agree with one other.” (Romans 15:5-6) In Hinduism, Swami, Vivekananda states, “Help and not fight, assimilation and not destruction, harmony and peace and not dissension are the substance of my faith.” In other words, the main goal of religion is to unite each other and not to divide and find each other's similarities and not differences. This globalization by means of technology helps the tolerance of religion to increase but not to create borders to unity and similarities. HISTORY OF GLOBLZATION AND RELIGION Religion is an institution that has existed since the emergence of the first man and humanity. Although the term ‘globalization’ emerged as a buzzword in the 1990's after the collapse of Soviet Union, the process of globalization since the 14" century. Globalization has defined as the “physical expansion of the global geographic domain that is the increase scale and volume of global flaws and the increasing impact of all kinds of global forces on local life. Moments and expansion forces mark the major turning points and landmarks in the history of globalization.” It means all the factual events of history whereby globalization are all evolved from alexander the great in 365 B.C nearly % of the world conquered when Chandragupta Maurya becomes a Buddhist and for the first time the large amount of power of a world religion, commercial economy and imperial armies. And when alexander the great pleaded Chandragupta for peace, Gerosia marks all the eastern link (from Mediterranean to central asia) by overland routes. And the expansion of Buddhism in asia was in china and consolidated cultural links across Eurasian Steppe in India, the laying foundations of silk route. Since the period of 650-850 A.D there is a vast or large expansion of Islam from Western Mediterranean to India. And again, not only the religion Islam has been adopted even the cultural, social and educational aspects brought about by Islamic Civilization. Example here is the Ottoman Empire of 1300 A.D (sultans, muslims,