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- Title
SÖMÜRGECİLİĞİN KUTSAL ŞEMSİYESİ: DİN.
- Authors
ÇİÇEK, Mehmet Fatih
- Abstract
This study, entitled "Sacred Canopy of Colonialism: Religion", examines the relationship between religion and colonialism in the context of Spanish colonialism. Starting in 1492 with the landing of Christopher Columbus in Latin America, Spanish colonialism was both sanctified and legitimised by the Roman Catholic Church with the Inter Caetera Declaration of Pope Alexander VI in 1493. Following the Pope's Inter Caetera Declaration of 1493, the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, in which Spain and Portugal shared the territories to be ruled, indicates that the crusading mentality turned into a new conquest movement and that religion was instrumentalised as a sacred canopy in the Christianisation and enslavement of the Indians and the colonisation of Latin American lands. In the use of religion as a legitimising ideological device in Latin America, it is understood that the Roman Catholic Church and missionaries from many Christian sects were the main actors in the legitimisation of Spanish colonialism. In this way, religion provided both the legitimisation and institutionalisation of Spanish colonialism and the invisibility of the policies of violence, including the genocide of indigenous peoples in Latin America by the Spanish. In this way, religion was instrumentalised as a sacred canopy that provided protection against external criticism. In Spanish colonialism, not only religion but also modernity under the name of “civilization” was used as a cover for the legitimisation of colonial policies. Therefore, this study evaluates the main purpose of the instrumental use of religion in Spanish colonialism as well as the way religion was legitimised.
- Publication
Journal of Social Sciences / Toplum Bilimleri Dergisi, 2024, Vol 18, Issue 36, p1
- ISSN
1306-7877
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29228/tbd.2007.74824