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It is the present author's contention that religion will be called upon to play a bigger role in the twenty-first century, as the world and mankind presumably continue to face serious moral, social, environmental, economic and political crises.
19 Like morally-concerned Muslim scholars or intellectuals everywhere, there have been and still are many western minds which feel that the moral, social or political crises in contemporary technological society call for a greater role of spiritual or religious perspectives in public life.
Realizing the profound impact of globalization by which the global market, labor, high technology, information, media, knowledge, skills, ideas and values become borderless at incredible speed, with far reaching consequences on local culture, personality, society and the holistic quality of life, several intellectuals and social activists of different religions in the Asia-Pacific region together examined the unprecedented phenomenon from the religious perspectives in a conference held in Malaysia in July 1997.
54 The theology of eco-spirituality developed by the Christian organizations focuses on the compassion of God for life and the holistic continuity between the human and the natural worlds.
Chittick, two professors at the State University of New York, the remedy for the problems of human society - hunger, disease, oppression, pollution and a thousand other human produced ills - is, as Islam sees it, "to return to God through religion (islam, iman and ihsan).
"59 There is no doubt that if religions are to play a more effective and expanded role in the new millennium, they have to have the spiritual, intellectual and ethical resources to provide the appropriate answers, solutions and responses to the issues of the day.