What does this mean? “Certainties will be exchanged for - PowerPoint Presentation

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What does this mean? “Certainties will be exchanged for - PPT Presentation

uncertainties Important Concepts Regarding Spread of Christianity Why did missionaries have greater success in Spanish America and in the Philippines The overwhelming European presence conquest settlement missionaries forced labor social disruption disease ID: 797784

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What does this mean?

“Certainties will be exchanged for

uncertainties.”

Slide2

Important Concepts Regarding Spread of Christianity

Why did missionaries have greater success in Spanish America and in the Philippines?

The overwhelming European presence (conquest, settlement, missionaries, forced labor, social disruption, disease)

Seemed as if old gods had been “bested” and future lay with the new powerful religion

Note: These were localized, small-scale, orally based religions (would be less resistant)

Slide3

Important Concepts Regarding Spread of Christianity

What made Europeans different than earlier conquerors?

No official flexibility.

“They claimed exclusive religious truth and south the utter destruction of local gods and everything associated with them.”

Why was there very limited acceptance of Christianity in early modern China?

Page 658 - 659

Slide4

Persistence and Change in Afro-Asian Cultural Traditions

Syncretic religions develop:

Vodou

(

Vodun

) in Haiti

Santeria in Cuba

What are they a combination of?

West African traditions and Catholicism

Slide5

Slide6

Reminders of Earlier Spread of Islam

Southeast Asia & West Africa Islam was introduced by traveling merchants and solidified by activities of Sufi Holy men UNLIKE Middle East, India, and North Africa where is was established by

Arab and Turkish Conquest

Ottoman,

Safavid

, and Mughal empires had

Turkik

origins, while the Songhay Empire did not

The Ottoman and

Safavid

ruled over heartland of Muslim world, where majority of subjects followed Islam. The Mughal and Songhay ruled over regions were Islam was a minority faith.

The rulers of the

Safavid

Empire were the only ones to impose a Shia version of Islam as the official religion of the state

Slide7

Further Spread of Islam

Anyone else confused by page 660?

Main ideas:

The islands of Southeast Asia illustrate the diversity of belief and practice that accompanied the spread of Islam in the early modern era

Aceh vs.

Java

Accommodation vs. more orthodox version of the religion?

Religious syncretism became increasingly offensive and heretical

 religious renewal and reform that emerged in 18

century

Examples:

Aurangzeb (1658-1707)

Religious wars in West Africa

Southeast & Central Asia: tension grew between localized and blended versions of Islam and those who sought to “purify such practices in the name of a more authentic” faith

Slide8

Wahhabism

Mid-18

century

Arabia

Islamic scholar: Ibn

Abd

al-

Wahhab

Argued weakening of Islamic world was due to deviations from the pure faith of Islam

Considered school of Sunni Islamic thought

Received political backing of Muhamad Ibn Saud