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Due to the Spanish imposing their cultural beliefs, some indigenous languages of the Americas evolved into replacing their native tongue with Spanish, and lost to present day tribal members. Priests who understood and could speak the indigenous languages were more efficient in religious conversion when they did evangelize in native languages.
Religious conversion is the adoption of ... conversion by free choice due to a change in ... tax conditions and social prestige. Colonial missions since the ...
Millenarianism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed". [1] These movements have been especially common among people living under colonialism or other forces that disrupted previous social arrangements.
Within African communities, there were clashes brought on by Christianization. As a religion meant to "colonize the conscience and consciousness of the colonized" [70] Christianity caused disputes even amongst hereditary leaders, such as between Khama III and his father Sekgoma in nineteenth-century Botswana. Young leaders formed ideas based on ...
The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal , Spain , and France .
After the establishment of Islam, its rapid expansion and conquests displaced traditional African religions either by conversion or conquest.Traditional African religions have influenced Islam in Africa, [3] and Islam is considered as having more commonality with traditional African religions, [4] but conflict has occurred, especially due to Islam's monotheistic stance and the rise of Muslim ...
People must confront the “destructive habits” that limit their efforts to tackle climate change, a world-first inter-faith ceremony has heard. ... “As religious leaders we offer our voice as ...
The East African Revival (Luganda: Okulokoka) was a movement of renewal in the Christian Church in East Africa during the late 1920s and 1930s. [1] It began on a hill called Gahini in then Belgian Ruanda-Urundi in 1929, and spread to the eastern mountains of Belgian Congo, Uganda Protectorate (British Uganda), Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony during the 1930s and 1940s. [1]