Between Andalusia and the Philippines
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2018
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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Religions are more than beliefs and practicing rituals. There are more than 4000 religion in the world vary in nature and number of followers. Religions have as old history as they emerged and often they are associated with non-religious elements. They are marked by social traditions, cultural legacies and economic and political motives. Christianity and Islam are respectively the first two religions in terms of adherents of course. Each has very rich history and both share not few historical intersections. Their emergence and spread raises many researches and studies. The wide stereotyped perception of Islam is unfortunately not true. Islam is represented negatively as the religion of terrorism and extremism. On the other hand, Christianity is the religion of tolerance and unconditional compassion and love. This research revisited some eras of both religions and traced the nature of Islamization and Christianization as processes. Chronologically speaking, it starts with Islam and selects the case of Islamic Spain; Andalusia. How Muslims arrived to Andalusia and how they stayed for more than eight centuries, are questions the first chapter aims to answer. Then, it explores the Spanish settlement in the Philippines in the 16th century. This dissertation pursues to unveil realities constructed through long time about Islam and Christianity in two different eras and different territories and examine their history with a new couple of eyes.
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Islam, Christianity, Islamisation, Christianization