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Sacred Books of the World

Central Washington University

RELS 201.001

Visiting Religious Services

What to look for – a suggestive list

The purpose of this assignment is to experience religion as it practiced in the living context. (See textbook p.12) In order to more fully understand a religion, it is necessary to see it in action. Your assignment is to describe what you experience.

What to look for – a suggestive list

1. Style of worship – liturgical, order of service, bulletin, formal, informal

2. Music

3. Sacred Texts – what translation? what texts? who reads the text?

4. Prayer – recited, personal, silent. Who prays?

5. Sermon, homily

6. Theology - What ideas were presented?

7. Posture in worship – when standing, sitting, kneeling, touching?

10. Authority – hermeneutics (who interprets the scripture and how?)

11. Architecture and interior organization – stained windows, banners, style of seating, technology, bulletin boards, artifacts, library.

12. Intangibles – sense of the sacred.

In summary, where did the service take place? What happened during the service? How did it feel, was there as sense of the sacred?

The report on the visit should be two pages, double spaced. Pay particular attention to the use of sacred books and how they are used in worship and ritual.

David Newcomer, revised 4/03/13