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Religion has been an integral part of human culture for thousands of years. Only a few religions have dominated people's ideals and actions. The other smaller indigenous religions have been devalued over the years. Religion affects all aspects of today's society including politics and economics. Worldly religion has been viewed as secondary to the military and the economy. Tradition and customs have been an ongoing characteristic of religion in eastern societies. Whereas, secularism arose in the West and took control. This secularism was nonconformity, unorthodox approach much different than that of the traditional eastern societies. When this secularism arose in the west it meant, that the west had become more modernized. In religion there are four subdivisions which control the way an individual views other religions. These four branches include exclusivism, inclusivism, synchrotism and pluralism. The books we have utilized and focused upon seem to direct themsel!ves towards the exclusivism approach. Weber, Huntington, Rudolph, and Piscatori have shown the use of empirical evidence to control and define their theses of religious capitalism. Other major theorists such as Tyler
Bradley, Michael. "The Young an the Restless." The Sporting News (13 Jan. 1997): 33 affecting our literature, philosophy, history, politics, art, psychology and, indeed, almost every realm of modern thought. Blum, Debra E. "Colleges FaceGrowing Competition for Top Basketball Talent." In Huntington's analysis of religion he separates civilization into eight groupings of different religions. These he lists as Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American, Western and African. Huntington challenges the post-cold war "end of history" scenario. This he describes as an international order based on universal acceptance of the capitalist economic model, with no sort of change coming in the future. Huntington likes to focus upon the importance he attaches between the relationship of religion and cultural factors. He feels that economic analysis can explain inter-state relations and conflicts. Finally, he concludes that political institutions grow out of economic power structures. That culture and religion are economics, and in the sense that in the west, the market system establishes the general framework of values, which he theorizes to be independently generated by religion. In the editorial by Rudolph and Piscatori, emphasis is placed upon the response to political and ideological developments in Europe, namely a pan-Islamic movement. The text states that there are a growin
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