Christianization

and languages, although somehow they were geographically distinct from one another. After the end of the Viking Age these separate kingdoms gradually with time acquired distinct identities as countries, which then went hand-in-hand with their Christianization. Thus the end of the Viking Age for the Scandinavians was the beginning of their relatively brief Middle Age.The Vikings begun discovering the northern islands, from which they ventured onto South to the Northern regions of Africa and East…

In the United States when a baby is born it is assigned a sex based on the genitalia seen and the chromosomes present in the baby. The baby, seen as either male or female, is then treated as such: molded with stereotypically male or female characteristics. However, more than 3 babies of every 500 born will identify with the gender opposite to which they are assigned at birth, society defines these people as transgender individuals. From a neurological perspective transgender people experience…

The Theta Upsilon chapter of Phi Theta Kappa has chosen the topic “Quests for Human Expression” as our focus for the Honors in Action theme “Frontiers and the Spirit of Exploration.” The right to freedom of expression, equality and human rights is a crucial key to democracy, and is safeguarded by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which the United…

name-it-claim-it theology and other prosperity-gospel variants. Materialism has also infected the church, and this has caused spiritual stagnation. There is also a postmillennial view that advocates that evangelism and missions are not needed due to the “Christianization” of many parts of the glove. We see counseling therapies, how-to books and self-help books that “guarantee” success in Christian living. Lastly, there is the myth that graduates from seminary will have a better chance of success…

played a central role in the western world’s economic development (Ritzer & Guppy 2014). In the article “God Bless America: How Christ became Central to Capitalism and US politics”, Goldenthal (2015) discussed the idea of how God or the idea of Christianization became the religion of the United States of America. The United States has not always used Christian terms to support their ideas of politics and capitalism. In this article, Princeton University professor, Kruse…

A simple observation of Mexico’s current demographic statistics makes it difficult to believe that the slave population of New Spain, modern day Mexico, was the largest in the Americas at one point in time. Just one percent of the Mexican population currently identifies as being of African descent, a significantly smaller portion of the population than other former slave colonies in the Americas. This small prevalence of the Afro-Mexican population has led to a lost history of these people,…

As a result of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World in 1492, Spanish men endured months of difficult voyages in search of three things in the Americas- gold, glory, and God. In addition, having had arrived with the drive to conquer, they were soon enough met with mighty and diverse civilizations that made up Mesoamerica-- proving itself to be the perfect opportunity to take the wealth of these peoples, obtain territory, and maybe convert a few souls to Catholicism. However, these…

In many circumstances when situations aren’t going in your favor, you start to panic and take drastic measures in order to make them do so. This is the circumstance that France found itself in after the first few years of the French Revolution. Desperate times suddenly arose due to a new constitution and other laws being put in place that didn’t mesh with their culture. Due to this situation desperate times also called for desperate measures in which France was forced to take. Thus, the entire…

Americans did not cause this decline, they did play a large role in the loss of native Hawaiian culture. Mark Twain summed this up perfectly by stating "Although Hawaiians died due to European microbes, their culture will die due to American Christianization and the march of political economy"(Wilson, 2000, p. 527). He did not see any problems with this. He thought that the government should exploit economic gains that Hawaii could bring through tourism and trade. This exploitation of Hawaii was…

these youths to associate homosexuality with these experiences. This leads heightened levels prejudice and fear in Native American communities, which can go largely unchecked due to the homophobic and transphobic rhetoric preached during the Christianization of the now Elders. As Michelle Cameron, author of “Two-Spirited Aboriginal People: Continuing Cultural Appropriation By Non-Aboriginal Society,” puts it, “two-spirited Aboriginal people experience intersecting oppressions”, both as…