Globalisasi dan Keberagamaan di Asia: Pemikiran Kwok Pui-Lan�Teologi Poskolonial Feminis Asia

Abstract

The main thesis of this article is to present the phenomenon of globalization about cultural change (and economic) that gives effect to the "religion" and religious practice. Secularization as part of globalization and modernization, affecting cultural relations and "religion" in the region. Forms of religious practices which was appointed as the impact of globalization is privatization, fundamentalisasi, and the commodification of religion. Kwok Pui-Lan as an Asian postcolonial feminist theologians criticize globalization as a form of colonization with a new face that oppresses women and children. In the context of Asia with a diversity of religious and extreme poverty, how theology can provide a role in public life. Religion can not be separated from other social relations (especially cultural) as stated classic secularization theory. Thus the award to religious pluralism and inter-faith spirituality to be very important to build religiosity that appreciate coexsistence.