Religion influences what people eat and the medicine they use this is why religion is so important when doing business. Religion is also blamed of not letting countries have an economic change where they can grow and stop being poor nations. lastly religion influences how two parties perceived each other when negotiating this is why is very important to know the other person culture and religion before negotiating to obtain good outcomes.
1. How can we create an ethical relationship between religion and business so that they may cooperate towards a more sustainable and respectful development of life?
The way to create an ethical relationship is by developing a code of ethics where it shows how each should cooperate to help the growth of countries and improve the living standards of humans. The leaders of both religions and businesses should recognize what they have to lend one another to strive for a better world. It is also necessary to change the way people learn and teach business so it doesn’t interfere as much with religion and we would see that business and religion have many things in common.
2. Can you imagine a world without religion where everyone would be trying to get immediate satisfaction to their individual needs?
I could not imagine a world without religion because what makes us different and interesting are all the types of religions there are in the world and what is important to me might not be as important to a protestant person. But it would be nice that religion itself does not become a business of money making and sometimes forcing people to do things they don’t want to it would be nice to have an equilibrium where religion instead of hurting makes people happy.
3. Religion can create networks of trust and familiarity that facilitates economic transactions. Can you name other positive aspects of this relationship?
Other advantages are that it can create better understanding of people and knowing how to talk and dress in a negotiation in order to get more chances of obtaining the negotiation. Another advantage apart from trust is finding others needs and wants to see if your business can be successful in a specific country.
4. Do you think that stereotyping based on religion has been influenced by economical or political interests, why, whose? What is the role of The Media in this issue?
I do think that stereotyping based on religion has been influenced by economic or political interest an example is what we see with Muslims we assume they are all terrorist or bad people because that was bin laden religion, the role of media in this issue is huge since most of people’s perception is given by the media since they publish whatever they want people to read or people to think about other religions.
Religion as business, youtube 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eJe7FR35dA
