god is dead

Norbert G. Magluyan, MJ July 9, 2014
Advance Cultural Anthropology Fr. Edgar Javier, SVD

Globalization
1It refers to the worldwide phenomenon of technological, economic, political and cultural exchanges, brought about by modern communication, transportation and legal infrastructure as well as the political choice to consciously open cross-border links in international trade and finance.
Secularization
2Is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions. The secularization thesis refers to the belief that as society’s progress, particularly through modernization and rationalization, religion loses its authority in all aspects of social life and governance.
Multiculturalism
3Is the cultural diversity of communities and the policies that promote this diversity. As a descriptive term, multiculturalism is the simple fact of cultural diversity and the demographic make-up of a specific place, sometimes at the organizational level, e.g., schools, businesses, neighborhoods, cities, or nations. As a prescriptive term, multiculturalism encourages ideologies and policies that promote this diversity or its institutionalization.
Religious pluralism 4A commonly-used term with several distinct meanings. Depending on the context, the term covers a wide variety of theological and philosophical discussions. At least four different concepts can be implied by this term, though each revolves around the central idea of different religious belief systems working together.
Ecology
5Is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment. Topics of interest to ecologists include the diversity, distribution, amount (biomass), number (population) of organisms, as well as competition between them within and among ecosystems.

Globalization.
1. Is the new globalization affects the culture and way of living by the old tradition in the society?
2. What would be the effect of the new globalization in the lives of the people now a days?
3. Why there is still poor country or lower class country despite the hi-tech technology and increase economic growth especially the Philippines?

Secularization
1. Is the secularization helpful for the state and the church’s governance?
2. Is it also helpful for people who serve the state at the same time the church?
3. Can this be the answer to change the two perspective point of views of the state and the church?

Multiculturalism
1. As a missionary, do I really need to study the culture of the country and their language?
2. What are the benefits of this multiculturalism?
3. Why do we have many cultures and beliefs even in one place?

Religious pluralism.
1. What religion is real and true?
2. Why we have many god and goddess?
3. This can be the answer for all the queries of people about religious belief?

Ecology.
1. What would be the picturesque of Mother Earth after 25 years?
2. What would be the effect of the infrastructures in the environment?
3. How could we save Mother Earth?