How did the rise of science affect the spread of religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Effects of the rise of science
1. rise of science did not come at the expense of religion
2. science did prove to be more powerful than any single religion
a. showed more cultural flexibility, appealing more
widely across the world
3. religion had cultural limitations
a. Buddhism grew mainly in Central Asia
b. Islam registered little appeal in Europe beyond the
Turkish-controlled Balkans
c. Christianity was rejected in most of China and India
and all but wiped out in Japan
4. Western science had the power to penetrate everywhere
a. cultural exchange that took Christianity to Asia
carried took Western science with it
b. Jesuit scholars were the agents of both transfers
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