Response paper to Religion and Identity
Order and Disorder in Global
System
Name : Anwar Masduki Azzam
Class : CRCS 2012
At the first time, this article has attracted me strongly with its
prelude that our era is “an era of disorder” (p. 233). It automatically brings
me into the perspective that there is different view between now and past,
today and yesterday. I would like to say that this article tends to differ and
compare the reality. After reading into the conclusion, I see that this article
truly emphasizes the disorder as a result of the process of fragmentation (p.
252).
The conclusion above actually can answer my first question about what
disorder we have already had recently, and why this disorder seems different
from the past. However, using the second question as the main point, I think
that this article has not given me a comprehensive understanding about the
reality we have today. I would argue that the process of disorder is not only
the example of fragmentation today. Fragmentation has also occurred in the past
which is actually not quite different.
For instance, I really agree that modernity produces the new identity of
people to be more plural and complex. However, I think the concept of modernity
in this article tends to simplify the word of modernity only as a result of
modernization in Europe, as clearly this article says it as the effort of centralization.
If the meaning of modernization is only monopolized by the history of western
people which particularly refers to the history renaissance and aufklarung, the industrial revolution
and democratic state, we can see that there is a problem of understanding the
meaning of modernization itself.
Finally, I think the modernization process is not only a particular
phenomenon in our reality. As a human being, we have experienced modernity
along with our daily life. Modernization is our history itself, not a
monopolistic idea from western people history. If we can understand this, so we
cannot say that the fragmentation is merely starting when there is an effort to
centralize people to “western” things. And so does the disorder process, we can
understand that the disorder process also occurs in the past.
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