Global Media Cultures and Globalization
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What is religion typically regarded as?

  • A personal or spiritual journey that has no connection to a deity
  • An institutionalized set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices relating to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity (correct)
  • A set of attitudes, beliefs, and practices relating to a specific culture
  • A way to understand and explain natural phenomena
  • Which of the following is NOT a way religions are involved in globalization?

  • Religions provide cultural and political resources in the context of globalization
  • Religions are replaced by globalization (correct)
  • Religions play a role in shaping globalization
  • Religions are influenced by globalization
  • What is a common way that religions respond to globalization?

  • By defining themselves in relation to one another (correct)
  • By adapting to globalization and incorporating modern elements
  • By isolating themselves from the global community
  • By rejecting modernity and globalization
  • What is a result of the globalization of religion?

    <p>Religions become less rooted in particular places</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the perspective of most intellectuals and academics when it comes to the globalization of religion?

    <p>A modernist perspective</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a way that globalization provides fertile ground for the development of religion?

    <p>By offering a political and cultural resource</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the core value of post-modernism?

    <p>Expressive individualism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who is the best representative of the pre-modernist perspective?

    <p>Pope John Paul II</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the literal meaning of the Arabic term Islam?

    <p>Submission</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the category used in the study of religion to demarcate the five largest and most internationally widespread religious movements?

    <p>World religions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT one of the 'Big Five' religions?

    <p>Sikhism</p> Signup and view all the answers

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