Original scientific paper
Religious background of discoverging travel books
Ivan Pederin
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zadru
Abstract
Many books were written on geographical discoveries,
considering them as the facts that changed the world. The travel
books themselves received short shrift or little importance was given
to them in terms of who had written them. Most often it was not the
captain himself, and, moreover, the personality of the author waned
in the face of the importance of the discovery. In this article such facts are considered and travel books are analvsed as literarv facts.
Polemics with animism was a fundamental question of early
Christendom as, for instance, the criticism of Rome in "De CMtate
Dei" by Augustinus. In Middle Ages the polemics was widely left to the
sidelines. Now the discover met the natives of the overseas countries
who were animists, lived in complete lawlessness, so that the authors
started thinking if they were humans or not. The relationship between
Christianity and animism has been renewed and now wide coverage is given to the image of the animist in these travel books.
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Publication date:
20.12.2002.
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