What is "Renaissance" ?

Question

The word "Renaissance" came from the France word "REN-uh-sahns" or "ren-uh-SAHNS" meaning the re-born or re-birth.It is a given period of time in the history of human civilization that lasted about 300 years from 1300 to1600 AD, which began in Itally. It swept away the customs and institutions of the human civilization that dominate more than a thousand years. Writers, painters, sculptures and others scholars used bold new techniques to express the spirit of the time.

Right now, the world around us, what is happening ? We are passing through a very critical time. For example, in politics, for the first time, in the history of British politics, Prime Minister of a British Government have been questioned by the police! The killing of Prostitutes, the alliged corruption in arms deals with Saudi Arabia and so no. In Middle East, in Bangladesh, in USA or Africa every where we find an unrest or disturbed situations.

So, we are at the edge of a "renaissance", a new world order !!!

Answer 1

To me the Renaissance means the opening of the mind to new ideas, I think it lasted up until recently and didn't end 400 years ago.
The reason why I think that is because the human race seems to be regressing now and going back to it's old ways, the human minds are closing back up.

Answer 2

renaissance was the re-emergence of the intellectual status of the human spirit in which the accepted values of the day were set aside and the age of reason began. the period was only in europe, no where else. it began in italy and spread throughout europe like wildfire. no onger would men accept the rule of religion, but chose to throw off the shackles of ignorance and began to express themselves in terms other than as religious creature unable to think, but as one who no longer accepted what he was told, preferring to find out for himself what was and wasn't true and real. he refused to accept what was superstition and ignorance by using his own innate ability to think for himself. he began to questioin assumptions put forth as true in favor of learning more than what the priest told him.
what the world is going through now is not another renaissance, but an attempt to question once again, the truth that a small group want us to believe in favor of learning for ourselves what is happening in the world. but there is also another attempt to press us into a non-questioning mold of ignorance some call religious ferver but is really an attempt to re-impose a social order of absolute rule by decree, rather than the concious search for knowledge. this time, it is the muslim religion and religious intolerance of individualism which is being put forth as the destiny of man. it is the same intolerant attitude put forth under christianity, that is now being put forth by muslim fundamentalists.
it all comes down to who controls the minds of the people, the individuals themselves, or the imams of islam. only time will tell what will be in store for those who fall into the darkness of ignorance and intolerance.