Factors That Led to Expansion of Religious Communities
Martins Osasuwen
Mr. Seiden
World History
21 May 2013
Factors that Led to Expansion of Religious Communities
Faiths such as Islam and Christianity arose and established over time. With the help of Silk Roads, merchants, and missionaries these religions spread to distant lands. These new beliefs systems were introduced to various places far from their origin by the help of many contributing factors. These religions became principal world religions rapidly after they spread. Explicitly, both Islam and Christianity spread and expanded until 1500 C.E. because the two religions had missionaries and merchants/trade to spread the message about their faith. However, unlike Islam which had no monastic life, Christianity had many monasteries that encouraged the spread of the Christian faith. Both religions, Christianity and Islam had missionaries that helped spread their faiths far from their home-land. Missionaries are people sent on a religious mission, or one sent to promote their religion in a foreign country. In Christianity, Jesus, the Messiah, and his followers used to spread the word around the world but when they died, countless missionaries, like Paul worked zealously to attract converts. The missionaries such as Paul and Gregory the wonderworker not only preached the Christian doctrine but also expelled demons, moved boulders, diverted a river in flood and persuaded observers that he had supernatural powers and those were all fascinating new people to change and also spread the messages of God (Bentley and Ziegler 296). So these missionaries helped make Christianity a vastly popular religion by the wonderful works they were doing. Similarly, Islam missionaries also helped spread their religion to a variety places. The Islam missionaries helped to bridge differences in cultural tradition and to spread Islamic values throughout the Dar al- Islam. Dar al-Islam are areas where Muslims are in the majority But the most Islamic missionary for Muslims
Mr. Seiden
World History
21 May 2013
Factors that Led to Expansion of Religious Communities
Faiths such as Islam and Christianity arose and established over time. With the help of Silk Roads, merchants, and missionaries these religions spread to distant lands. These new beliefs systems were introduced to various places far from their origin by the help of many contributing factors. These religions became principal world religions rapidly after they spread. Explicitly, both Islam and Christianity spread and expanded until 1500 C.E. because the two religions had missionaries and merchants/trade to spread the message about their faith. However, unlike Islam which had no monastic life, Christianity had many monasteries that encouraged the spread of the Christian faith. Both religions, Christianity and Islam had missionaries that helped spread their faiths far from their home-land. Missionaries are people sent on a religious mission, or one sent to promote their religion in a foreign country. In Christianity, Jesus, the Messiah, and his followers used to spread the word around the world but when they died, countless missionaries, like Paul worked zealously to attract converts. The missionaries such as Paul and Gregory the wonderworker not only preached the Christian doctrine but also expelled demons, moved boulders, diverted a river in flood and persuaded observers that he had supernatural powers and those were all fascinating new people to change and also spread the messages of God (Bentley and Ziegler 296). So these missionaries helped make Christianity a vastly popular religion by the wonderful works they were doing. Similarly, Islam missionaries also helped spread their religion to a variety places. The Islam missionaries helped to bridge differences in cultural tradition and to spread Islamic values throughout the Dar al- Islam. Dar al-Islam are areas where Muslims are in the majority But the most Islamic missionary for Muslims
Cited: Bentley, H. Jerry and Herbert F. Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective with With sources on the Past. 5th Ed. New York: McGraw- Hill, 2011. Print. Francis E. Peters. The Works of the Spirit: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Volume 3. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995. Print. Strayer W. Robert. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History. 2nd Ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2011. Print.