THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISM ON RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS
THE IMPACT OF GLOBALISM ON RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The economic and political phenomena specific to globalization are complex and unfold on a planetary scale. These phenomena also exert influence on the religions existing on the whole planet. From a religious point of view, in the Western civilization it can be observed that people are becoming more and more self-sufficient, mercantile and secularized about themselves. Then there is a tendency within the same religions to attenuate confessional differences and ecumenical cooperation.At the same time, interesting developments are taking place within Judaism. It can even be said that Judaism aspires to the status of religion of particular importance on a global level. In October 2004, a group of rabbis representing various Orthodox Jewish communities in Israel, performed a religious ceremony in the city of Tiberias, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, where the last headquarters of the ancient Sanhedrin were supposed to have been. They argued, on that occasion, that they laid the foundations for the rebirth of the old Sanhedrin, according to the principles set forth by the renowned medieval scholar Moses Maimonides. The new Sanhedrin would urge to play the role of interface between religion and politics, aiming to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and to call on the other Monoteist religions, Christianity and Islam, to worship the same unique God revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai.

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