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...late 1500s the arrival of Italian Mateo Ricci?the first Jesuit to show up on China's shores?threw the Ming court into a tizzy: his hosts initially viewed him as a savage for carrying an idol of a long-haired fellow nailed to a cross. In the 1800s, thousands of Western missionary families spread across China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s, Chinese ultra-nationalists marauded across the countryside, decapitating missionaries in the xenophobic Boxer Rebellion...
...ever come along to claim the books. The texts, mostly from the 1700s and 1800s, are fairly commonplace and not unusually valuable, Verba said...
...stops at Catedral de Sao Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour guide doesn...
When the first U.S. women's colleges were founded in the mid- 1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...
When the first U.S. women's colleges were founded in the mid-1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...