How did the experience of coming into contact with so many new peoples and their religions affect the way that Europeans thought about religion?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Consequences of diversity
1. religious diversity made the world more secular
2. became less committed to their religions because they had to
live at peace with neighbors of different faiths
3. mutual challenges of rival religions weakened all of them by
comparison with other godless or materialistic ways of
looking at the world
B. Changes in religious thought
1. challenges to traditional Christian descriptions of God
2. secular subjects did become more common in art
3. religions did become more mutually tolerant
a. mingled and forfeited their claims to exclusive truth
b. on a global scale, religious warfare and persecution
probably became more bitter and more widespread
4. beginning of the Renaissance
a. fashions in learning, art, and letters informed by the
inspiration of classical Greece and Rome, leaped from
Italy, where they had originated, across Europe