Therefore this shows a passive method of spread, which encouraged the individuals in their homelands to convert to Islam. Unlike the Christians who do not have any form of pilgrimage. In contrast to Islam, Christians were more aggressive in their methods of spread compared to Islam. Taxation of Muslims in places they have dominated in areas such as Copts and Nestorians. In these areas Christians taxed them lower which caused Christians to rail to the Arabs for the
Attitudes of Muslims and Christians Towards Merchants and Commerce From their origins to around 1500 CE, the attitudes of both Christians and Muslims towards trade and merchants shifted as conditions in the Christian and Islamic worlds changed. In the beginning of the religion, Christian attitudes were more negative while Muslims tended to encourage and respect trade and merchants. Over time, Muslims became more like the early Christians in that they were suspicious of traders whereas the Christians became more like the early Muslims, equating merchants with doing God’s word, thus reflecting the changed importance of trade in the late Middle Ages in Europe. At the start of both religions, Christianity and Islam had very different views on merchants and traders. In the New Testament of the Bible, hatred is shown towards wealth and merchants (Doc 1).
From the onset of the Christian and Islamic religions, until about 1500, the two religions began with two different opinions of merchants, but grew together as time went on. As the two religions reached the 1500’s, their view of merchants became almost identical. The missing documents that would have helped make my essay answer the question more fully and complete are two journal entries or documents of an average class standard persons' point of view on an Islamic and Christians' disposition towards merchants and trade from the religions origins. In the beginning of each religion, Christianity and Islam had very different views on merchants and traders. In the New Testament of the Bible, hatred is shown towards wealth and merchants.
The Freedom of Press gave colonists the right to write and publish articles that may be considered controversial and that attack government officials. Though the Zenger case did not give complete freedom to the colonies, it gave them the courage to make bigger risks. The Great Awakening in the first decades of the 18th century caused a religious feeling among many people. The Great Awakening had an enormous impact on religion in the colonies. Colonists were confessing their guilt and sin and then wallowing in the thought of being “saved.” The Great Awakening increased religious diversity and the separation of church and state.
Throughout the periods 1450 to 1750, Christianity both promoted and impeded societal changes through major roles of authority, abuse of wealth and power, and strong influences on the overall society. While some scholars may believe that the change was paramount to Christianity during this time, others would tend to disagree. During the early 19th century, Christianity impeded and promoted changes using intellectual, social and political aspects. The Organized Church impeded change using intellectual factors. The religion of Christianity promoted enlightened people to question the ideology of their God and lean more towards a scientific method in order to look at the world around them.
Giddens argues that fundamentalism is a reaction to globalisation. He sees society as having moved to a “late modern” phase, in which globalisation has undermined traditional norms regarding the nuclear family, gender and sexuality. People are now faced with choice, uncertainty and risk and in this environment, fundamentalism flourishes as it promises certainty with its rigid, dogmatic beliefs. Giddens argues that globalisation increases fundamentalism by providing an alternative to the risk society of late modernity. Fundamentalists may reject some aspects of modernity, they embrace others in order to spread their beliefs, for example, through the Internet, email and electronic church, suggesting that fundamentalism does not represent a total rejection of globalisation and modernity.
I agree that religion, when used correctly, is a phenomenal catalyst for incorporating moral and ethical principles into government. When religion is misused, it can create quite a tyrannical government. An example of this is the Middle Ages, where religion was used to instil fear into the governed. I will hypothesize that it is important that the religion was Protestant and not Catholic. I am very skeptical that democracy would have been the same result if the religion had been Catholicism instead of Puritan.
1) What can you learn from Sources A and B about changing attitudes to crimes involving religious beliefs? Source A shows how during the middle ages how strongly society believed that your religion should be dictated and if you did not believe in the religion that they told you to then there would be severe consequences. However Source B shows that the changes to crimes involving religious beliefs have now become un-acceptable and society has become more equal over periods of time. 2) Transportation as an alternative to execution, c1660. Transportation was introduced because the authorities believed that it was a cheap and easy way to eliminate criminals from the country.
Assess sociological explanations of the relationship between globalisation and religion 33 marks For secularisation theory, modernisation undermines religion. The importance of science and technology in economic development, and the rational worldview on which they depend, are seen as destroying belief in the supernatural. On the other hand, religion may contribute to development, as Weber argued in the case of the protestant ethic. More recently, sociologists have examined what role religion may play in development in today’s globalising world. Globalisation has brought rapid economic growth and has seen India become more important player on the world political stage.
The Emperor and the Roman people should have done more to help and prevent it from falling. There are adherents to single factors, but more people think a combination of such factors as Christianity, decadence, lead, monetary trouble, and military problems caused the Fall of Eastern Rome. Even the rise of Islam is proposed as the reason for Rome’s fall. The Roman Empire not only expanded, but was modified by the conquered people. The structures of the Roman government changed to deal with new situations.