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Morality and religion is the relationship between religious views and morals . Many religions have value frameworks regarding personal behavior meant to guide adherents in determining between right and wrong. These include the Triple Jems of Jainism , Judaism's Halacha , Islam's Sharia , Catholicism's Canon Law , Buddhism's Eightfold Path , and Zoroastrianism's "good thoughts, good words, and good deeds" concept, among others. These frameworks are outlined and interpreted by various sources such as holy books, oral and written traditions, and religious leaders. Many of these share tenets with secular value frameworks such as consequentialism , free thought , and utilitarianism . Religion and morality are not synonymous. Morality does not necessarily depend upon religion, though for some, this is "an almost automatic assumption." According to The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics , religion and morality "are to be de...

Globalization refers to the free movement of goods, capital, services, people, technology and information. It is the action or procedure of international integration of countries arising from the conversion of world views , products, ideas, and other aspects of culture . Advances in transportation (such as the steam locomotive , steamship , jet engine , and container ships ) and in telecommunications infrastructure (including the rise of the telegraph and its modern offspring, the Internet and mobile phones ) have been major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities. Globalization can also be defined as a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology . This process has effects on the environment , on culture , on political systems, on economic development and prospe...