Accommodation (religion)

Under missionary accommodation or adaptation refers to the adaptation of a new religion introduced by mission to the newly discovered social relations. In Protestant theology for the term rooting was often used. From 1975, the term " inculturation ", also because of the similarity with the word incarnation to enforce began.

The accommodation, in an approximation to the external forms of life (clothing, food, housing ), the language ( using the national language or a liturgical language like Latin ), to the aesthetics and art ( architecture, painting, music ), to the social habits and legal standards or made ​​to the philosophical and religious thinking.

In the Christian mission, the church was made in antiquity largely the manners of the time; in research, the term Germanization of Christianity was to be discussed. In the Middle Ages, many corpus of customs were replaced by Christian customs in the mission. Over time, the trends have been more and more to unify the religious forms in all nations. The theology was built by the scholasticism on the Greek Aristotelian philosophy. This fixation prepared the biggest problems with the missionary in modern times.

In the Roman Catholic Church were founded in 1534 Jesuits. Their missions in China ( Matteo Ricci, Johann Adam Schall von Bell ) and India ( Roberto de Nobili ) the most generous in adapting to the customs encountered Since other missionary orders like the Dominicans, Franciscans and Augustinians an accommodation largely rejected, it came to the Rites Controversy. Pope Benedict XIV decided to go with 1742 and 1744 against the Jesuits.

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