Religion homework readings response

Answering the following questions for the related readings (attached), at least One page for each reading double spaced

Mystical Melancholy Text

1.   Contextualize: How is mental health understood, accounted for or treated in these texts? Be sure to cite from specific texts in your responses.

2.   Analyze: How is ‘difference’ used to promote or abuse? Be sure to cite from specific texts in your responses.

3.   Evaluate: How can religious stress complicate similarities that exist between psychotic disorders—which can, and do, carry some of the same symptoms—as religious experiences?

4.   What can America learn from Geel?

Infectious Disease, Plague Text

1. Contextualize: How does the author explain the origins of the plague? What does this suggest about medieval medicine, or the medieval worldview? To what degree do you think it reflects actual practice?

2. Analyze: What happens to people's behavior in the city of Florence? How might people’s faith in their religious, political, and social institutions have been affected by the plague?

3. Evaluate: You are reading about pre-scientific responses to disasters; what do these responses tell us about the people who hold them? Do we see responses like this in our world? Cite in an example drawn from recent world events (as in the past three-five years) that demonstrates some of these behaviors and/or beliefs, from anywhere on the globe.