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2016
Medieval Mission and Martyrdom Under the Mongolian Rule: Conceptualizing "Religion"?
VALTROVÁ, JanaBasic information
Original name
Medieval Mission and Martyrdom Under the Mongolian Rule: Conceptualizing "Religion"?
Authors
Edition
Mongolian Expansion and Its Influence on Development in the Eurasian Area in the 13th and 14th Centuries, 2016
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech)
misie; mučednictví; křesťané v Asii; Mongolská říše
Keywords in English
mission; martyrdom; Christians in Asia; Mongolian empire
Změněno: 28/2/2017 10:52, Mgr. Michaela Ondrašinová, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
The presentation strived to contribute to the discussion about medieval development of thinking about “religion” by exploring selected Christian missionary accounts about non-Christians in Mongolian empire. What kind of terminological and conceptual problems were the Christian missionaries facing when describing Asian religions? The contact with religious plurality in these areas, together with missionary zeal, encouraged new ways of thinking about “religion”, which challenged the existing terminology concerning “religion” (terms lex, secta, fides, ritus). Analyses of missionary terminology and descriptions of various “religions” reveals a tendency to implicitly accept general comparability of Christianity with non-Christian traditions. The presentation mapped certain problems that the missionaries had to face and suggests, that this experience with religious plurality provoked thinking about "religion" as general category.
Links
| MUNI/21/VAL/2016, interní kód MU |
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