Topic > Final Paper - 772

In a short final paper of approximately 4-5 pages (~1,000 words), use these three films to discuss, illustrate, and analyze some of the major characteristics of religion in an era of globalization. An effective paper will go beyond simply describing religion as it is portrayed in movies and will use the analytical concepts from our semester spent together studying world religions. In the era of globalization, religion has been transformed and studied by different approaches using different sets of analytical tools. In this article I will use the tools learned in the Introduction to World Religions course and apply them to analyze and discuss three films we watched in class, namely "Crazy Wisdom", "Atheism: A brief History of Disbelief" and Hosay Trinidad". Those films may seem strange to people who have not studied religion, but if you see those films through the lens of a religious scholar, it is easy to interpret their actions and follow their ideas. First, I want to start with the film about Chogyam Trungpa, whose religious movement in the West can be considered a perfect example of 20th century religious globalization. His main goal was to transfer knowledge of Tibet to Westerners. Furthermore, his mission was about the concept of enlightenment, and not religious enlightenment, but secular enlightenment. The teaching called “Crazy Wisdom” followed; as a result, he radically changed the opinions of people who believed how an enlightened teacher should behave. We can analyze his actions from “The social and institutional dimension” by Ninian Smart. Because, as a result of the damage inflicted by materialism, he wanted to form a new type of society, to bring together the best ideas of the East and the... center of the paper... ideas. To me, surprisingly, the film extends the idea that religious belief is strongly related to authority, power, and patriotism, and concludes that the United States is a very comfortable place for nonbelievers or atheists. Furthermore, we can analyze Miller's atheistic approach from the Smart perspective, as “The Doctrinal and Philosophical Dimension,” because this dimension emphasizes the focus on the role of Scripture regarding some doctrines and discusses speculation about God's relationship with people. In this article I introduced religious globalization in three ways: in the first example, diffusion of religious ideas as a result of individual religious organization, in the second case, appearance of new features of religious beliefs as a result of rituals, in the second case third case , the globalization of religion in the context of changes in human support for religion.