Ways of the World:A Brief Global History

First Edition

CHAPTER 16Religion and Science

1450–1750

Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Robert W. Strayer

The Globalization of Christianity• Western Christendom Fragmented: The Protestant

Reformation• Christianity Outward Bound• Conversion and Adaptation in Spanish America• An Asian Comparison: China and the Jesuits

Persistence and Change in Afro-Asian Cultural Traditions

• Expansion and Renewal in the Islamic World• China: New Directions in an Old Tradition• India: Bridging the Hindu/Muslim Divide

A New Way of Thinking:

The Birth of Modern Science• The Question of Origins: Why Europe?• Science as Cultural Revolution• Science and Enlightenment• Looking Ahead: Science in the Nineteenth Century• European Science beyond the West

Chapter 16 Religion and Science, 1450–1750

• Map 16.1 Reformation Europe in the Sixteenth Century (p. 466)• Spot Map 16.1 The Expansion of Wahhabi Islam (p. 474)• The Virgin of Guadalupe (p. 460)• The Protestant Reformation (p. 463)• Japanese Christian Martyrs (p. 468)• Jesuits in China (p. 471)• Guru Nanak (p. 476)• Muslim Astronomy and the Scientific Revolution (p. 479)• Uncovering the Human Skeleton (p. 483)