Ch 24 Religion

Reflection:
Continuing with chapter 24, it goes over the importance of religion and how it started to spread worldwide. Several types of religions were spreading...Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. From these religions ideas and practices were being used in many countries. Buddhist spread more in India, Christianity spread more in non-Muslim Africa and South Korea and less in India. In every major religious tradition "fundamentalism"(militant piety-defensive, assertive, and exclusive) took shape in some way. This become a religious response. "Fundamentalism" looked to the past for ideals and models. This term came from the United States where religious conservatives were mad by the scientific approach to the Bible. This emerged recently in Islam (Osama bin Laden and the World Trade Center). This showed an increase of Muslims to create a new political/religious order centered on the teachings of Islam. We see that religion and politics ties together...In the Islamic world militant fundamentalism was not the only religious response. There are many people out there that have acted peacefully. We see in this chapter how from religion people help other countries and addresses political issues to the people. Religion connects people and helps the people in need.