What religion did missionaries spread?

What religion did missionaries spread?

Professor Brian Stanley looks at the history of how European Christians spread their message, using key texts from around the world, including China, West Africa and New Zealand. Christianity is not a western religion.

What religion did the first missionaries to America spread?

The Spanish missions in the Americas were Catholic missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 16th to 19th centuries in the period of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

What religion was spread in the Americas?

The Pilgrims Anglicanism spread to the New World and became popular throughout Colonial America during the early colonial period. In Virginia it was the official religion until 1786, when Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom’ was enacted.

Which religion was spread to the Americas by the Spanish?

Roman Catholic religion
Such an empowerment clearly meant that along with Spanish law, governance, language, and culture, the Roman Catholic religion, too, would cross from Europe to the Americas and that the king of Spain would engage in the spread of Christianity to the native peoples of the New World.

Why did explorers spread Christianity?

Why did Europeans want to spread Christianity in the Americas? They believed that God wanted them to convert other peoples. What types of goods did Europeans ship to Africa and the Americas on Triangular Trade routes? Africans were brought to the Americas as enslaved people.

Why did the missionaries go to the south?

Hundreds of white and black missionaries went to the American south after the Civil War, where in addition to religious goals they tried to ameliorate the conditions of white racism and black poverty which still prevailed there despite the outcome of the war and the freeing of the slaves.

When did the American foreign missionary movement begin?

Within this context of activist Protestant expansionism and mission efforts within the U.S., and as a direct extension of these home missions, the American foreign missionary movement developed. It began with the establishment in New England in 1810 of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM).

What did the Spanish missionaries do in the Americas?

In addition to their primary goal of spreading Christianity, the missionaries studied the native languages, taught children to read and write, and taught adults trades such as carpentry and ceramics.

What was the role of religion in the missionary movement?

Religion, especially the dynamics of evangelical Protestantism, played an important role in the tasks of internal expansion and nation-building which occupied Americans in the nineteenth century. At the same time, early in the century American Protestants also took their first steps beyond our shores in the foreign missionary movement.