HIS106Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Mendicant Orders, Bourbon Reforms, Argentine National Anthem
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Although attempts were made to reform baroque catholicism in the 18th century, most devotees across spanish america were still guided by a sensuous religion centred on the felt experience of the christian god. How christianity developed after the initial period of evangelization (first part of the course). It was seen as a secular, skeptical attack on religion, or anti-christian. But many enlightenment thinkers were churchmen or other pious people concerned with church reform. Church still major factor in europe and the new world, even with increased secularization. Concern with the eternal state of the soul, a daily concern. Belief in sin and the need for penance encouraged to confess and pay for sins so they could get through purgatory to paradise. Emphasis on the sense in worship eating and drinking. Public acts of supplication took images with them on procession to ward off demons or thank god. Supported pilgrimage as a viable expression of piety in christian life.
