1. Introduction
As we all are aware, our modern world is witnessing a tendency of politicization of religion. As religion is getting more and more serious space both among the politics and public, the politicization of religion has almost become a pervasive phenomenon in large part of the world. The thing is that politicization of religion enhance to political polarization, and as a consequence of that the religious manifests splits in to almost every corner of the world. When religion becomes a crucial dividing power in the social and political arenas, it can absolutely contribute to religious conflicts. As we know politicization of religion currently constitutes a major challenge to peace and security in many parts of the world. The rise
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The Causes of Politicization of Religion Sometimes the cause of politicization of religion is the growing anger by a certain religions or sects of religion as a result of oppression by the state or other religions. The persecution which is not only discriminatory; but also create physical as well as psychological ruthlessness, may produce anger and make the oppressed desperate for freedom (Grim, 2007, pp. 633-658). For example, in Nigeria in 2010. 12,000 people killed in a cycle of violence as a tumour of anger between Christians and Muslims stretching back more than a decade (Greene, 2010).
The other cause would be the minority-majority dilemma. Naturally, it is believed that the majority may oppress the minority with the intention of maintaining their faith as a prevailing faith. The minority, on the other hand, may revolt against the majority with the intention of conquering the power (Greene, 2010).
In addition, the growth of extremism is another cause of politicization of faith. In the process of radicalization, political factor supposed to be the direct factor. For example, in recent time the radicalization of Islam has been grown at an alarming rate; and various factors particularly politics is attributable to the growth of this radicalism (Lakshman, 2006, pp.
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It’s believed that the violence in in Rakhine has also spread to the rest of the country. There has also been bloody conflicts between Muslim minorities and Buddhists in Sri Lanka, in addition to that the conflict in Southern Thailand counts as the region most bloodiest conflict characterized by division between Muslims and Buddhists. (International Crisis Group, 2013). Furthermore, Politicising of religions is playing a very important role in Middle-East current armed conflicts particularly in between Hamas and Israeli government. Sharia law is taken into a very serious consideration by some Muslim countries in the region, when making new polices or taking political actions. Similarly, on the other side in Jewish community a lot of laws passed by government are supported by “Halaka” which is a quite important fact for Judaism. It’s believed that Israel is the country which guarantees the survival and future of Jewish. (sergie, 2014). Now, if the national interest of a country is the protection of a specific religion and its followers, then it’s clear that the country political decisions and steps will be obscured by their religion. A huge problem which has been noticed with Politicising of religions in Middle-East is that it allows terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Al-Qaida and now Islamic state (ISS) distort
Consider this: a man has lived his entire life as a second-class citizen under the thumb of the ruling majority due to his religion. His people are a sizable minority in his country. Eventually, something causes the ruling majority religious group to switch with the formerly second-class religious group. Now, this man is in power and has authority over the newly formed second class. Due to humanity’s biased concept of justice or fear that this group may return to power and continue its discrimination, he and the rest of the new ruling class will likely oppress in the same way they were oppressed.
Safi also made it known that terrorism is happening everywhere. However, the world only seems to care when it takes place in a major city, or cities in the West. In order to beat this problem, the world must open their hearts and “let the light permeate us,” (Safi, par. 36). Sadly, in today`s world, any religious violence that occurs is immediately associated with Islam. Many people in the world isolate Muslims because of the fear that all Muslims are bad.
For this reason, an increasing amount of conflict arises and shapes a person’s prejudice. Religion constructs its follower’s ideology which puts
The role of religion has great power in bringing
Throughout many years, religion has been the main part of people’s lives. There have been many wars over which religion is better or which one deserves to live here. This has caused many problems in societies. Sometimes a religion can control who lives in a city, this causes people to convert to that religion not letting people be free and happy. Religion should only be a part of someone’s life and not be controlling it.
The lust for power, the greed behind every person, leads them to choose power over cause, stripping them of moral in exchange for a greater state of being.
The three different perspective being power through education, religion, and suppression power
Introduction: In the text by Eboo Patel “Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation,” Patel focuses on living in a diverse faction full of religious prejudice in a world full of materialistic outlooks. At the same time he intertwines his personal experiences and provides a remarkable account in which he says that growing up in America as a Muslim led him to discover the importance of cultural pluralism, the acceptance of all religions, and his huge account that all Muslims aren’t extremists. He believes in ethnocentrism; religions should be able to coexist without feeling that one religion is superior than the other. In a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong, Patel thinks the meaning of pluralism is that the differences
That is, religion can foster an “us versus them” mentality that often escalates into sectarian violence and extremism. Jensen has argued that religious cosmologies based on the belief in a cosmic struggle between good and evil forces, such as God and the Devil, Heaven and Hell, facilitate lethal violence by promoting intolerance and a disinclination to negotiate or compromise.” Throughout history people have prosecuted and been prosecuted in the name of religion. Believing in Heaven and Hell becomes ridicules when the preachers of religion are hypocrites. If you don’t believe in Hell because of the hypocrisy of religion and religious professors, it renders Hell an ineffective means of righteous
In this interview, it illustrates how power may ignite cultures to have a division based on their cultural group. It may cause a nation to become captivated by misleading mistakes and false representation of a political group. Although, segregation exists, individuals felt the need to react in ways that became unjustifiable causing destruction affecting beliefs, values, and other perspectives amongst other cultures, religions, and beliefs differently than their own. By taking the lives of innocent individuals and shaping and conforming lives according to their biases alters how children may shape their own human world views based on exceptionalism, power and segregation, and improving history and evolution through integration.
Religion has created and resolved many conflicts in civilizations. Throughout world history, religion has played a huge role of different societies due to the conflict that it can cause in cities, countries and even full continents. As time goes by, maturity within each religion progresses. Each religion has become more forgiving with their rules and guidelines which is a drastic difference to how it used to be when old countries used religions to unite and decide government rulers. Religion is a crucial part of civilizations, it can have many different positive and negative effects on the way countries move on.
The author gives a view on the religions in the global context. 5. Topic Sentence: The contemporary world today combines a wide diversity of world religions and in order to preserve peace people ought to display high level of mutual tolerance.
The spread of Islam had been exceptional since widespread conversion in Southeast Asia started in the 13th century. As Islam continues to grow in present times, it potentially holds great political power over unlimited territory; Islam may eventually hold vast power over our society. Hence, this paper aims to discuss the use of Islam as a political tool and the use of politics in Islam using Indonesia as a key reference. As the process of Indianisation was concluded with the coming of Islam, the cultural heritage of Hinduism is reduced, and eventually, Hinduism will become heritage.
He wants to demonstrate that the contemporary privileging of the secular state is problematic by pointing out the dangers of an inclusivist approach as well as the vapidity of multiculturalism with its empty desire to respect differences whilst not living them out to the full. Serious understanding of inter-religious encounters is vital to make an intercultural dialogue proper. It is necessary for us to combine the linguistic form with the specific context of the utterance in order to determine the full meaning of an utterance. Wolf finally talks about the approaches that nation states should take in dealing with religions.
Religious groups have had vey bad effects on society; they caused a lot of harm to people and property. Firstly they cause death, injury and might even people for life. Some people would even get traumatized as a result of havocs caused by religious bodies. These people kill people a lot. For example a great number of people were killed in Nigeria when Boko Haram bombed the mosque one Friday.