Another type of globalization that began to take place was the shaping of today's modern religions. This chapter was interesting because to most "advanced" thinkers of the enlightenment period actuall believed that religion was going to phase out of exisitance, and society would turn to a much more scientific/ communist role. For the most part during that time this actually seemed to be true, countries like France, Britain, and the Soviet Union all saw a decline in the amount of religious practices, another big factor was that smaller countries were actually placing a higher emphasis on school.
But despite all the belief of religion not playing out, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islamic religions played huge parts in the political area as in the societies they were accepted into, they were also very adept at spreading themselves into other countries. Through out the west popular activities such as yoga, and meditation have spread down the line branching from Buddhism. By the 20th century countries like Chine began to embrace religions like Christianity, making it the first religion to actually make up for 62% of European religious culture. Another large part of the expand religious modernization was called fundamentalism, which seemed to be adopted in part by almost all religious groups. This fundamentalism was considered the embattled form of spirituality, which in large part was very symbolic to the people because it was considered to be good verses evil.
As the evolutions of religions continues, to this day it appears that we have a society that is lead by its own personal views. Over time the religions themselves have morphed into what they have become today with the advancement of fundamentalism but with all these adaption it is still very obvious that our world s still a very religious society.
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