Religious background of discoverging travel books

O zemljopisnim otkrićima dosad je napisano mnogo, novina više nema, ali literaturi o otkrićima pristupa se kao dokumentu koji bilježi da je tad ili tad neki moreplovac oplovio Rt Dobre nade, došao u Tihi ocean ploveći na zapad i slično. Predmetom ovoga rada su putopisi napisani o otkrićima. U radu se istražuje tko je putopise napisao (obično ne zapovjednik), uloga ličnosti zapovjednika, koja često nestaje pred važnošću otkrića, kao primjerice ličnost Kristofora Kolumba; potom kako su Europljani vidjeli urođenike prekomorskih zemalja, koji su bili animisti pa su pisci zaključivali da nemaju nikakva zakona i dvojili jesu li uopće ljudi. Odnos kršćanstva i animizma kao jedno od temeljnih pitanja ranog kršćanstva sada je obnovljen.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