StudyofReligionPaper.docx
Study of Religion Paper (30 points or 17%): Students will write a brief (at least 600 words, excluding works cited or title page) that does the same religious studies analysis as in the Sacred in Everyday Life paper, but will now apply that study to a specific example of religion as found in academic scholarship. This may be a myth, ritual, community, sacred space, holy day, scripture – anything that we have identified as an appropriate subject of study as academic scholars of religion, and you will demonstrate to me your ability to treat it as such in a well-organized, well-written, well-documented essay. You will need to use at LEAST ONE SCHOLARLY (ACADEMIC/OUTSIDER) BOOK found in PICKLER LIBRARY that will serve as the basis of your COMPREHENSION of the religious example as well as the starting point for your own ANALYSIS of the religious system in which you APPLY religious studies concepts, methods, and theory. Any sources must be cited in proper MLA or Turabian bibliographic format in both the body and the bibliography/works cited. In the paper itself, ALL USE OF SOURCES, DIRECT OR PARAPHRASED, MUST BE CITED IN THE BODY OF THE ESSAY or the paper will receive ZERO CREDIT. I will expect you to re-familiarize yourself with BOTH critical thinking schemas described below AND the “The Essentials of Essay Writing, for Students New to Religious Studies” excerpt before you start your paper.
NOTE WELL! THE REFLECTION PAPER AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION PAPER MUST BE ON DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. That is, you MUST write on TWO different units – one for the reflection, one for the Study of Religion – to fulfill the requirements of the class. If you try to both of them in the same unit, I will count only the first on submitted, and I WILL NOT GRADE the second one.
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