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BBC - Religion: Religions - 17 views

www.bbc.co.uk/religions

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 27 Feb 11
     
    Good resource for general info on a lot of religions around the globe!
Tony Searl

Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 15 views

www.mapsofwar.com/index.html

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  • David Hilton on 14 Oct 09
     
    Animated maps showing the imperial history of the Middle East and the spread of religions. The graphics are beautiful and provide a simple overview of the broad sweep of history. I've found these useful at the start of a unit/semester/term to provide a general introduction. My students think they need a hard rock track in the background as a soundtrack...
  • Tony Searl on 29 Jun 10
     
    Feature Where has democracy dominated as the world's most popular form of government? See 4,000 years of democracy in 90 seconds... > Go to Map History of Religion How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries? Imperial History of the Middle East Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of world events?
HistoryGrl14 .

Internet History Sourcebooks - 5 views

www.fordham.edu/...1542newlawsindies.asp

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  • HistoryGrl14 . on 20 Oct 13
     
    "The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 The Laws and ordinances newly made by His Majesty for the government of the Indies and good treatment and preservation of the Indians created a set of pro-Indian laws - so pro-Indian that they some had to be revoked in Mexico and in Peru due to settler opposition. where the viceroy was killed when he attempted to enforce them. The conflict was between "feudalists" who favored the encomienda system because it maintained society as in the Old World, and the more centralizing "regalists" who wanted to preserve royal power in Spain;s new Empire. Eventually the encomienda was allowed to continue. Charles by the divine clemency Emperor ever august, King of Germany. . . . To the Most Illustrious Prince Don Philip our very dear and very beloved grandson and son, and to the Infantes our grandsons and sons, and to the President, and those of our Council of the Indies, and to our Viceroys, Presidents and Auditors of our Audiencias and royal Chanceries of our said Indies, Islands and Continent of the Ocean Sea; to our Governors, Alcaldes mayores and our other Authorities thereof, and to all the Councils, magistrates, regidores, knights, esquires, officers, and commoners of all the cities, towns, and villages of our said Indies, Islands, and Tierra-firme of the Ocean Sea, discovered and to be discovered; and to any other persons, captains, discoverers, settlers, and inhabitants dwelling in and being natives thereof, of whatever state, quality, condition and pre-eminence they may be. . . . Know ye, That having for many years had will and intention as leisure to occupy ourselves with the affairs of the Indies, on account of their great importance, as well in that touching the service of God our Lord and increase of his holy Catholic faith, as in the preservation of the natives of those parts, and the good government and preservation of their persons; and although we have endeavoured
Rhett Hughes

Go Social Studies Go - 15 views

www.gosocialstudiesgo.com

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  • Rhett Hughes on 24 Apr 14
     
    This is a great resource for an alternative to using a textbook. It has resources for US History, World History, and World Religions.
Mary Higgins

The World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society | Pew Research Center's Religion & ... - 11 views

www.pewforum.org/...gion-politics-society-overview

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Eric Beckman

Yacob and Amo: Africa's precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays - 2 views

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  • Eric Beckman on 02 Jan 19
     
    Article on philosophy emphasizing freedom of religion from outside of Europe.
Aaron Shaw

Enlightenment The Age of - 10 views

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  • To understand the natural world and humankind's place in it solely on the basis of reason and without turning to religious belief was the goal of the wide-ranging intellectual movement called the Enlightenment. The movement claimed the allegiance of a majority of thinkers during the 17th and 18th centuries, a period that Thomas Paine called the Age of Reason. At its heart it became a conflict between religion and the inquiring mind that wanted to know and understand through reason based on evidence and proof.
  • Political developments were far livelier in central Europe. In Prussia Frederick the Great, building on the military and bureaucratic organization of his predecessors, introduced greater freedom of religion while expanding the economic functions of the state.
  • France and Britain squared off in the 1740s and again in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
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  • More than in art, neoclassicism in literature came closer to voicing the eighteenth century's fascination with reason and scientific law.
  • All are but parts of one stupendous whole,           Whose body nature is, and God the soul ...           All nature is but art, unknown to thee;           All chance, direction, which thou cannot see.           All discord, harmony not understood;           All partial evil, universal good           And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,           One truth is clear: Whatever is, is right.
Mary Higgins

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 34 views

www.worldmapper.org/...text_index.html

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  • Mary Higgins on 01 Aug 12
     
    The site re-sizes land areas to reflect different characteristics, e.g., population, wealth, birth rates, religion, etc. Helps students visualize.
Mary Higgins

Animated map shows how religion spread around the world - YouTube - 8 views

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  • Walter Antoniotti on 14 Oct 16
     
    Very Interesting. I have added it to A Concise History of Christianity at http://www.textbooksfree.org/A%20Concise%20History%20of%20Christianity.htm
Joellen Kriss

World religions - 14 views

www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm

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      Joellen Kriss on 23 Oct 09
       
      Somewhat easy to navigate. The side bar gives each religion the have here and different aspects of each.
Eric Beckman

Emperors Constantine and Licinius: Edict of Milan on the Freedom to Worship for Christi... - 0 views

berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/...ity-and-other-religions-313-ce

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  • Eric Beckman on 09 Oct 17
     
    Edited text of the "Edict of Milan"
Javier E

China Razed Thousands of Xinjiang Mosques in Assimilation Push, Report Says - WSJ - 0 views

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  • New research shows Chinese authorities have razed or damaged two-thirds of the mosques in China’s remote northwestern region of Xinjiang, further illuminating the scope of a forced cultural-assimilation campaign targeting millions of Uighur Muslims.
  • the Australian Strategic Policy Institute said satellite imagery showed that roughly 8,500 mosques, close to a third of the region’s total, have been demolished since 2017. Another 7,500 have sustained damage
  • Important Islamic sacred sites, including shrines, cemeteries and pilgrimage routes, were also demolished, damaged or altered, the study found.
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  • “The Chinese government’s destruction of cultural heritage aims to erase, replace and rewrite what it means to be Uyghur,”
  • China’s Foreign Ministry on Friday repeated its claims that Xinjiang has around 24,000 mosques and that the number of them per capita among Muslims in Xinjiang is higher than in many Muslim countries. It said that China fully protects the human and religious rights of all ethnic minorities and described the ASPI report as “smear and rumor.” It denied the existence of detention camps in Xinjiang.
  • ASPI estimated that around half of important Islamic sacred sites—many of which are supposed to be protected under Chinese law—have been damaged or altered since 2017.
  • The report estimated there are fewer than 15,500 mosques left intact in Xinjiang, the lowest number since the 1980s, when Uighurs had just begun rebuilding mosques destroyed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. Most of the land where mosques were razed remained vacant, it said.
  • The campaign is part of a longer-term trend to transform communities in the name of public safety. The strategy has gained pace under President Xi Jinping who has called for the “Sinicization” of religion
  • During a visit the following month, the Journal found that some facilities had indeed been closed, with former detainees sometimes sent away to work in factories. One facility had been converted into a prison after being previously described as a school.
  • Of the dozens of facilities ASPI identified as recently under construction, roughly half were higher-security facilities. The most-secure facilities had high walls, multiple layers of perimeter barriers, watchtowers and dozens of cell blocks with no apparent outside exercise yard for detainees
  • Authorities are likely singling out people who they have lost hope of re-educating and putting them into long periods of incarceration, said Mr. Leibold. It is “the only way to really explain their pretty remarkable expansion,”
  • One challenge in pressuring China’s government over its Xinjiang policies is the relative silence of Muslim-majority countries. ASPI made its work available in 10 different languages to try to raise awareness beyond the English-speaking world
Ed Webb

Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...tu-library-ancient-manuscripts

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  • Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
  • The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
  • they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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  • only a fraction of the manuscripts had been digitised. "They cover geography, history and religion. We had one in Turkish. We don't know what it said."
  • Mali government forces that had been guarding Timbuktu left the town in late March, as Islamist fighters advanced rapidly across the north. Fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – the group responsible for the attack on the Algerian gas facility – then swept in and seized the town, pushing out rival militia groups including secular Tuareg nationalists.
  • As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous. They smashed a civic statue of a man sitting on a winged horse.
  • The rebels enforced their own brutal and arbitrary version of Islam, residents said, with offenders flogged for talking to women and other supposed crimes. The floggings took place in the square outside the 15th-century Sankoré mosque, a Unesco world heritage site.
  • They weren't religious men. They were criminals
  • Ed Webb on 28 Jan 13
     
    Such a tragedy
Deven Black

Earth Calendar - 5 views

www.earthcalendar.net/index.php

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  • Deven Black on 16 Oct 09
     
    The dates of holidays and observations from around the world.
Nate Merrill

Educational Materials | 1001 Inventions - 13 views

www.1001inventions.com/education

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  • Nate Merrill on 24 Nov 13
     
    Muslim Heritage in our World Resources
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