Catholicism

towns converted to Protestantism, while others remained loyal to the Pope. In the seventeenth century, the Thirty Years War began when Pope Ferdinand II tried to impose Catholicism on the people of Europe. By the time the Grimm brothers published the collection of fairy tales, Germany was split between Protestantism and Catholicism. The fairy tales were passed on from generation to generation through oral…

“The Question of Hu” is a novel wrote by Jonathan Spencer, a British-born American historian. The book tells a story of John Hu, a Chinese widower who is a lowly but religious Catholic, accompanied a French Jesuit missionary Foucquet in 1722 as a copyist and assistant, on a journey to France. During the journey, Hu acted bizarrely and ended up confined in a lunaitc asylum in Charendon. My goal in this paper is to explain that Hu is not truly insane, his problem is a result of misunderstanding…

While the stupendousness of the Renaissance began to ease, a myriad amount of complaints arouse towards against the church. These issues escalated so high to the point where a reform movement of the Roman Catholic Church being the Reformation needed to transpire; some of these issues included the clergy being less religious and incompetent of basic church teachings, the pope becoming too involved in politics, the massive wealth of the church, and their common method of raising money, selling…

the age of 30 she came to the United States. Her father passed away two years ago, and mother a large portion of her family reside in Columbia. Gloria has two daughters, one is married and the other divorced. Catholicism is the most popular religion in Columbia. Gloria practiced Catholicism and changed to a nondenominational faith when she moved to the United States 30 years ago. Gloria is currently in a monogamous heterosexual relationship with a younger gentleman age 45 years old. Recently,…

Hernan Cortes Letter to Charles V, the Spanish explorer writes, “I did everything I could to steer them away from their false gods and to draw them to our Lord God”. One of the main goals of Cortes’s conquest was to convert the local people to Catholicism. This need to convert can be traced back to the protestant reformation causing massive conflicts in Hapsburg territories. Protestants were taking over many of Charles V’s territories such as the Netherlands, Germany, and Bohemia. In an effort…

From polytheism to monotheism, trends in religion have endured lots of change. Each new major trend in religion also effects the way the countries and civilizations function. For example, the worshipping of Greek gods affected the way the Greek people lived. Another example, when Rome made the shift from polytheism to Christianity, many things changed including laws and customs of the people. While the religion changes in Germany were arguably not that drastic, the Protestant Reformation…

cousin, Elizabeth I of England. However, she was not met with help, but hostility, as her cousin put Mary in house arrest, where she remained for the next nineteen years. This was because Mary was a threat to Elizabeth’s reign, because of Mary’s Catholicism, and her strong claim to the English throne. Mary grew up in the French court. She married the king of France in 1558, and was queen of France, a Catholic nation, for a year in 1559, this is a contributing factor in why Mary was such a devout…

created a schism within the Roman Catholic Church to create different groups of Christians, not connected to the Roman Catholic Church or the Pope. This led to the English establish the Church of England, which is considered the "Middle way" between Catholicism and Calvanism. This was credited to King Henry VIII. The Catholic Church had been the centre of power throughout Europe for many centuries. Its and dominated every European state. Its influence was unparallel to any king or queen who…

Gabriel Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. Where he was born took a huge effect on his writing style. Many of Marquez’s characters, settings and events in his work come from when he was young and growing up. He grew under the roof of his grandparents in Aracataca, Colombia. Fernandez writes, “Many of his works have certain elements in common, such as the themes of solitude and violence”. Marquez published the short story in 1955 in Columbia. The culture in Columbia did…

practiced and promoted during his rule. This freedom of choice in religion is not seen in the Western countries where mainly Christianity was the only religion practiced. However, various sects of Christianity were practiced in Western countries. Catholicism and Protestantism being major sects of Christianity. The religions of the Qing Dynasty were primarily polytheistic whereas the Western religions were all monotheistic. Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism were the primary philosophies in the…