Unit 6: Religion Flashcards
a) How did the civilized Roman society perceive the religious cults of Celtic communities in Britannia?
-They respected the Druids, but they didn’t like the traditions, they found them barbaric
b) What was the role of druids during the Roman invasion of Britannia?
-The Druids helped to organise the resistance against the Romans. Queen Boudica led a revolt.
a) What made the Reformation different form previous forms of European anticlericalism?
-new by-product of capitalism: wealth, urbanisation, and education
-the laity was more literate than before; some were better educated than the priests that would take their taxes
-new by-product of capitalism: wealth, urbanisation, and education
-the laity was more literate than before; some were better educated than the priests that would take their taxes
-He was named Fidei Defensor for his fight against Martin Luther, defending the Catholic Church
-didn’t work well, as the idea spread quickly
c) How was the situation in England different from the French one?
-The French didn’t have a Fidei Defensor, they didn’t have Henry VIII
-they remained catholic
d) Why would Pope clement VII refuse to grant Henry his divorce?
-Henry VIII wanted to get divorced from Catherine of Aragon, because she didn’t give him a son
-Because Rome was surrounded by groups of Charles V (Catherines nephew) and he was not in favour, so the Pope had to follow.
-Thomas Crammer from the White Horse Group suggested a legal approach
-Anne was pregnant and he had to marry for the child to be legitimate, replaced the archbishop of Canterbury with Crommer and got divorced
e) What did the Act of Supremacy mean for British politics and religion?
-It confirmed the break from Rome.
-Henry VIII was Head of the Church
-dissolution of monasteries by Cromwell, two thirds of the land was sold to laity
-people owning monastic land were unlikely to become catholic after
f) Draw a conceptual map relating the political, religious, and economic dimensions of the Reformation in England
political
Head of State is also Head of Church
religion
Anglicism is the religion Catholicism changes to Anglicism
economy
No more corruption by the laity
Land was dissolved and expropriated from the church
a) Which would be the benefits of a strict performance of the articles contained in Gods covenant?
-Bring them in peace to the place they desire
b) What is the way to avoid this shipwreck (the Lords wrath)?
-To follow the counsel of Micah (Jewish prophet)
-love mercy, do justly, walk humbly with God, brotherly affection
c) How do you think Winthrop would justify that the Lord of Israel makes a covenant with a community of non-jewish puritans?
-God decides how people are (if richer or poorer)
-when 10 of them resist 100 of their enemy, Christianity is above all
d) Would you say that Winthrops comparison of his small community to a city upon a hill has proved to be premonitory of the present situation?
“The eyes of all people are upon us”, model for other people
Religion is not as important anymore
Read the following excerpts from Wallace G. Mills “Millenial Christianity British Imperialism and African Nationalism” and answer the following questions:
a) What was the missionaries vision of imperial expansion?
-missionary or religion has helped shape the political ideas and behaviour of most groups and classes
-They didn’t like imperial policies, because they stood in the way of their mission
-They were sometimes opposed to officials in the empire, not agents of the British empire
-relationship between missionaries and the Empire was complex
-denounce social evils (like slavery)
-but still didn’t reject the empire itself
b) What was the Exeter Hall and how influential could it be in British imperial politics?
-Missionary lobby which opposed further annexations of Africa without the Act of Parliament
forced Cape government to withdraw from Queen Adelaide Province
-missionaries wanted to isolate Africans from Whites, because the settlers might set a bad example
c) How are these ideas contradictory to the first sentence in the text?
-“Religion, and specifically Christianity, is often portrayed as a tool of the dominant classes.”
-missionaries didn’t see themselves as the dominant class, although they were indeed by putting their religion over the ones of African people
