Overview
Journal 1
In 300 words or more, respond to one of the eight questions listed below (choose Question #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, or #8).
While you are encouraged to reflect on all of the questions, you are required to answer only one for this journal assignment.
#8 Religion in the New World acted simultaneously as a tool of imperial conquest and a powerful tool for anti-colonial liberation and survival. How can a theological system be used effectively by both the oppressor to demand total obedience and the oppressed to justify a revolution? How does a shared experience of religious persecution serve as a more powerful tool for political unification than shared economic or geographic grievances?