Overleg:Rozenkrans
Ik heb een deel van de intro verwijderd,
van de Engelse pagina:
Regardless of any feelings that may be involved, there is actually little except various people's assertions to support hypotheses about the origins of the rosary in Europe or who got the idea from whom (or invented it independently, which seems quite possible as well). Older sources such as Eithne Wilkins' Stories of the Rose unhesitatingly attribute the origin to Buddhist or Hindu practice; others suggest desert hermits from the Middle East in the early centuries of Christianity who counted their prayers on pebbles. I have seen Islamic scholars who claim that Moslems got the idea from Christians and not the other way around, although to my knowledge no research on the early history of the islamic rosary has yet been published in English, so I'm not sure how widespread this view is. More recent sources acknowledge our general ignorance about exactly when and where Christian prayer beads originated (though the origin of the modern rosary is somewhat better established from the 1400s forward). There is certainly enough evidence from Europe before the Crusades to at least suggest that the Crusades cannot have been the first Westerners heard of the idea. It seems clear from the doubts expressed in more recent and more scholarly sources such as Stories of the Rose that there are, at the very least, ample grounds for doubting the older origin stories.