3-4 Page FINAL Exam Essay on World Religion

Final Examination Project 

Your assignment is to review the reading and writing we have done this semester and to answer two basic questions. 

1.  As you look around the world today, which trends in world religion might lead toward the abuse of human rights? 

2. As you look around the world today, which trends in world religion might lead toward greater respect for and improvement of universal human rights? 

Another way of framing the question is to ask in world religion: 

1.  Who is abusing people’s human rights? 

2. Who is working to stop these abuses? 

Yet another way of framing the question is to ask:

1.  How has religion been used in the past to abuse people’s human rights? 

2. How should religion be used to improve human rights in the future? 

You have a lot of flexibility in how you compose this final essay. What I am looking for is your ability to take what you have learned this semester and put it into words. I want you to tell me how and why religion gets used to limit the rights people should have, and how and why religion gets used to help people to enjoy better basic human rights. 

This should take the form of a clear, well developed essay using proper rules for quotation and citation. Length should be between two and four pages double spaced. 

To help compose this assignment, you should read the following text which was circulated earlier in the semester. (SEE ATTACHED)