Religious Conversion In A Commodity Economy

Abstract

The transformation of religion in the commodity economy is presented systematically, and it is affirmed that religious life is the communication of human beliefs. The division of functions, tasks, and job positions for the existence and activities of religion makes the difference between clergy and believers. The loss of faith of believers in clergy becomes a loss of faith in religion. The trust between clergy and believers is the faith of people of the same religion. The systematization of this content is approached from the methodology of humanistic philosophy and social philosophy, at the same time, using qualitative methods, analysis, synthesis, comparison, structural system combination, and inversion methods. The content results have confirmed that religious life is dominated by the commodity economy, causing religion to be distorted, that is, the trend of secularization, the emergence of new religions, or divisions and factions in religious life due to material enjoyment and the influence of money. Religious exchanges are also easy to understand and sympathize with because the clergy are human, and some religious followers are merchants of the commodity economy. The article concludes: first, human life and religious life are different, making human rights and religious rights different; second, religion is a product of humans, religion serves the needs of human life; third, when believers are passionate about religion, it makes the clergy noble and have a better life than other professions; fourth, the religious love of believers is a product of marketing with the enthusiastic language of the clergy.