2 Separate essays 300-500 words for each essay
Mindful questions to go with the links below.(Do not have to answer)
● How can Christianity help to or alleviate the violence of colonization?
● How did colonized people accept something reluctantly but without protest and/or
resisted the imposition of Christianity?
● How did ideas around gender intersect the colonial project?
Requirements:
● 300 to 500 words.
● Format double spaced, clear 12pt. font with 1 inch margins.
● Formally cite any outside source you use. Refer to materials from the class by
the last name of the author, noting the title in the first mention. Please provide
page numbers if you include a [short] direct quote.
● Don’t* just summarize, restate, or describe.
● Offer a brief summary of the most important thesis of the source, then connect
the reading to one or more of our course themes.
Connect these MAIN QUESTIONS to the Readings(prefered)/Video links below
(Your choice on which link to use, please use separate links for each
essay/citations) :
1) How Christian faith and practice, gender, and ideologies of sex have been
mutually constructed/constructive;
2) How ideas about gender, religiosity, and sexuality have changed over time and
in different contexts; and/or
3) How these concepts have informed (and continue to inform) social debates and
challenges
Links for the cited sources
Daher’s summary of the Las Casas/Sepúlveda debate
https://ehne.fr/en/encyclopedia/themes/europe-europeans-and-world/colonial-encounters/valladoli
d-debate
Confidence Worlanyo Bansah’s Christian Colonialism, Slavery and the African Diaspora
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020, Vol.6 (2), p.123-134
PDF for the above link:
https://noyam.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ERATS0320ART4.pdf
Hunter “American Identity & Christian Internationalism” in Competing Kingdoms
St. Pierre’s Who will bury the dead?
https://utep.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=104
347&xtid=168585