RELG 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ecotheology, Micronation, Global Warming

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 270
• Professor: Eliza Rosenberg

Document Summary

Arrival of western european christian missionaries: more powerful colonizers had more colonial subjects, western christian missionaries brought a different branch of christianity than what existed there, 1914 1918 ww1 1939 1945 ww2 (clearing ground for liberation movements from colonialism in africa): demystification of the power of the gun; discontent with the resettlement of war veterans, colonial masters conscripted african men to fight in wwii, now african men were given roles making them almost equal to european counterparts, veterans of war from europe resettled and were given african lands, men learned how to use the gun and understood that europeans could be hurt, 1950s 1994 african struggle for independence from colonialism and apartheid, new confidence after wwii, with the end of apartheid, africa becomes an officially independent continent, 1970s 2014 postcolonial/independent nations: development of christianity as a dominant religion in the tropical africa (overshadowing atr after merely 100 years)