Week 12 Flashcards
Spirituality
beliefs about the super natural and the metaphysical; explaining human’s relationship with the universe
religion
organized practice to express these beliefs
faith
based on the belief that it is possible to explain human relations with the spiritual world
Missionaries
believed they were doing God’s bidding to go out and convert people
Crusades
trying to reclaim the Holy Lands… etc
Reformation
- rise of Protestants, creation of Protestant Church
-Martin Luther
Conversion
- Respected bigger ones, (dismissed to be lower)
- ones lead by religious leaders, can convert population after leader
- smaller groups harder since no dominant religious structures or clear leaders with many followers
Connection to government
- both benefited from a close relationship to one another
Jean de Brebeuf
- most celebrated Jesuit mission among the Wendat and Petun (Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons)
Peter Jones and John Sunday
Indigenous Methodist Priest
- Jones became speaker for Mississaugas behalf,
Yagan
South America
- moved into mission settlements
- dies through epidemics
- most southern people
Missionary Approach
Old: fear
New: coaxing
Missionary Efforts
- benefits: military support, good trade relations
- drawbacks: missionaries suppressed indigenous freedoms
Cuiva
- Venezualan and Colombian who became Catholic
- became Guahibo
Why did Indigenous people convert?
- Genuine belief and faith
- cultural colonization
- access to material, wealth and technology
- cures for the new epidemic diseases