Tradition And Authority Around The World Circa 1688

The different religious traditions around the globe have been an enormous factor in the shaping of our world today. There have been countless wars over differences in religious beliefs throughout earth’s history. Take the crusades for example, millions of Christian and Muslim faithful died because they both believed Jerusalem was their holy city. The clash between followers of Islam and Christianity was still around in 1688, and is definitely still around today. The funny thing is that both religions are very similar in that they are both monotheistic, they have some holy places in common, similar beliefs, and the Quran even has some of the same characters as the Bible does. Even within the

There was also religious conflict at this time going on in India. When the Mughal Empire controlled Northern India, Muslims and Hindus lived side by side and got along rather peaceably. This was until 1658 when the emperor died and his son Aurangzeb, a militant orthodox Muslim took over. Aurangzeb took it upon himself to purify the Mughal court of non-Muslim officials; he also took land grants from Hindus and destroyed their great temples. This clash between two beliefs went on for decades later. Yet another religious schism was going on in northern Asia, in Russia. This theological battle was occurring between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Old Believers, who believed in moving back in line with the Greek Orthodox Church. When Nikon, patriarch of the Russian church started to reform the practices of the Church, many thought it was the coming of the apocalypse. On March 4, 1687, a group of old believers barricaded themselves in the island monastery of Paleostrovskii on Lake Onega. Russian forces sieged the monastery but before they could take any prisoners, the Old Believers set fire to it and over two thousand of them were burned alive.

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