Christianization

Christianization (from + Christianity) is named the adhesion in christian religion with renunciation of previous religious faith, or with the persuasion or with the violence. The phenomenon of proselytism in Christianity it existed in all the seasons because his command Jesus "headed you became always apprentice the nations" (Matc. ki,19) and they was realised as a rule peacefully without however disappear phenomena of extreme violence.

From the most intense makes of violent christianization they took place from their catholics, Spanish konkjstado'res the 16th century, in the conquest Central and Southernly America from their country.

During this enterprises, a lot of historians underline wmo'tites the Spanishes adversely in jcagenej's and their religious fanaticism that led to violent christianization of local populations, with obligatory christenings k.a. Minimal luminous examples existed that protected the local from the violence, who was also continued afterwards the conquest of their regions.

The phenomena of violent confrontation of persons from representatives of Christianity are intensely also connected with the Holily Examination, a ecclesiastical court that was founded the 12th century with a view to it fights the sects and that it often applied, violent methods in order to it extracts consents of guilt.

In the means of 13th century the Holily Examination had been installed almost in all the big European countries while from the means 14th and the beginning 15th aj. her work began exascenej' everywhere apart from Spain, where this period it makes her harder reappearance, and metava'letaj in a political body of extermination in the hands of catholic kings.

 

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