HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sola Scriptura, Witch-Hunt, Eurocentrism
28 May 2014
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Slave trade and destruction of local cultures: ** slavery as an institution existed from mesopotamia*, free labour is needed to get richer; they were more powerful due to technology and weapons, so easy to enslave populations, europeans considered themselves to be superior, 10 12 million slaves (between 16th 19th century, destroyed local cultures to convert them (religiously) Beginning of eurocentric imperialism: imperialism: conquer and dominate other areas for political and economic reasons, europeans became governors of new lands/countries they conquered, eurocentric: europeans were so impressed, surprised and fascinated by their success that they started to believe they were better than anyone else. The protestant reformation: consequences: novel understanding of the family, relationship between man and woman is based on love vs. arranged marriages, women were still regarded as inferior to men; husband should rule the household, and wife is the husband"s subject, value of individual (religious) freedom + the isolated, anxiety ridden subjectivity:
