HIST1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Amartya Sen, First Vatican Council, Italian Unification
Document Summary
February 25, 2016: europe and religions in global perspecive. Globalizaion of chrisianity: chrisianity spreads all over the world, mostly catholic and eastern orthodox. Chrisianity as imperial and ani-imperial: things fall apart. Reveals the tensions and conlicts of chrisianity entering the african culture. Role of chrisianity and of european culture: secularizaion and changing modes of religious expression. Science and charity, pablo picasso (1897: charity was oten associated with religious, reveals the juxtaposiion between two modes, feminizaion of religion (nun represents the charity while man represents science and logic) Religion comes into opposiion of science in the mid 19th century. Diderot and other enlightenment thinkers were against the abuses of religion and supersiion, not against religion. Max weber: famous sociologist, modern world is about disenchantment (there is increasingly no longer a world that appreciates the idea of divinity and magic ) Rise of fundamentalism: other ologies arose, new texts were discovered and literal interpretaions were arising.
