Analysis of Religion and Globalization by Peter Beyer

This study investigates the impact of global change theory on general religious studies and applies these theories to specific religious movements through a series of case studies. In particular, Beyer is interested in seemingly contradictory conflicts between social units in a globalized world, and the world is becoming increasingly "single place". The first half of his book, Introduction and Chapter 4 uses religion as the theoretical definition of social systems and the status of social systems in other systems.

The theory of globalization is a more challenging task because Bayer not only determines what globalization is but also determines the status of religion within it. He explored this problem in various ways through the rest of the first part of the book. Beyer depends mainly on the work of Luhmann and the works of Immanuel Wallerstein, John Meyer, and Roland Robertson. Using Luhmann, Beyer solved the theoretical argument about whether globalization is homogenous or simple transformation of all the specialities under common social rules.

This study investigates the impact of global change theory on general religious studies and applies these theories to specific religious movements through a series of case studies. In particular, Beyer is interested in seemingly contradictory conflicts between social units in a globalized world, and the world is becoming increasingly "single place". The first half of his book, Introduction and Chapter 4 uses religion as the theoretical definition of social systems and the status of social systems in other systems. In the second half of the book, a total of five chapters explore the application of Bayer's theory in a wide range of religious features of the world. Show more

According to multinational researcher Peter Kivisto, religion is one of the major players in the globalized world. Religion is worldwide and flows through immigrants. In 2015, about 65 million people worldwide recorded UNHCR displaced people, of which 21% were refugees and 2% were asylum seekers. 86% of designated refugees in UNHCR are located in developing regions such as Turkey and Lebanon. 54% of refugees come from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia. Peter Kivisto acknowledged that religion is always a "bridge" to North America, but he developed another observation about Western Europe. According to him, religion, especially Islam, has created new obstacles in Europe. The situation in Hungary is a good representation of the European tension of Muslim immigrants. I would like to know why the Hungarian government proposed a suitable metaphorical wall in Europe to fight Muslim immigrants.