HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mao Zedong, Ignatius Of Loyola, Vietnamese Alphabet
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Mao zedong as a nationalist/gandhi as a nationalist - in class paper, monday. Large concentrations of christians in south korea, indonesia, vietnam, and india. Majority christian societies in philippines and east timor. Jesus is son of god, the messiah, and savior of humankind from its inborn sin/badness through a blood sacrifice: salvation. Christianity is part of the radical heterogeneity of asian life. Thomas reaches india in 52 ce - asia"s first community of christians. Christianity expands in step with imperial conquests and western commercial penetration of asia: the civilizing mission. Portuguese empire of beachheads or colonial enclaves: 6,000 miles from lisbon (port) to macao (china) The society of jesus, the jesuits, 1534 by ignatius loyola. Tailoring christianity to chinese philosophical mind, a deliberate hybridization. Western science and technology to chinese elite (but jesuits expelled under the new ching. Appropriate features of filipino animism as part of filipino catholicism, e. g. santos. Ritual cycle: birth, death, christmas, easter, lent, etc.
