Article ID: CBB325557506

Science, Technology and Religion: The Exchange Between Enlightenment Europe and Imperial China (2021)

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The European Enlightenment fostered a sense of progress through a delineation of universal human rights as well as through a reductionist mathematization of nature. Science, technology and religion became a form of cultural currency between Europe and Imperial China. The Jesuits bartered mathematics, geographic surveys and military technology to win religious permissions with Chinese emperors. Other Europeans were convinced ancient Chinese texts corresponded to the Old Testament. China sent to Europe a Confucian model of a social ethic that demonstrated non-Christian civic virtues. This article examines this exchange using the intercourse in science, technology and religion as the metric.

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Authors & Contributors
Windmuller-Luna, Kristen
Statman, Alexander
Haohao Zhu
Muriel Roiland
Mori, Giuliano
Bruno Halff
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Science and religion
Missionaries and missions
Transmission of ideas
East Asia, civilization and culture
Mathematics
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
16th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
8th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Places
China
Beijing (China)
Portugal
Europe
East Africa
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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