Monday, February 3, 2020

Bog #6: second half of chapter 15

Chinese encounter with Christianity was different from native Americans in Spain's New world empire. The difference was: in Spain, the political context which have been defeated, disrupted, and cultural confidence shaken and in China encountered Europe Christianity and in no point was china's society and culture threatened.

Europeans were central players in the globalization of Christianity, while christianity was expanding or transformed culture, African American religious ideas accompained slaves to Americans. Europeans perceived African American's religious practices as sorcery, witchcraft, or even devil worship and tried to suppress them.

From oystering base in central Arabia. the Wahhabi movement represented a challenge to the Ottoman Empire, while its ideas subsequently spread widely within the islamic world.

Chinese elite culture took shape in a movement know as kaozheng or "research on evidence" which intended to seat truth from facts.

science revolution:
-breakthrough in the science revolution came from the polish mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

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