Field Project 1

Note: Assume you are a Buddhist and your interviewee is other religion.

Interview someone who is a practitioner of a religion significantly different than your own. This cannot be a friend or relative. Suspend all judgments and prejudices that you may have about this specific religious tradition. Explore and discover the interviewee’s beliefs and values. This should include their practices, festivals and rituals. You must consult sources other than your interviewee to see how he or she may differ from your research into this religious tradition. You should write an essay about this person. It can NOT be a transcript of your interview. An essay will have a point of view and be based upon data (from the interview and from your research). Your essay should be at least 4-5 pages, double-spaced, 12 point type, submitted as an attachment in Microsoft Word format.

Dos and Don’ts
-Do make the interview about the person interviewed.
-Don’t make it about yourself.
-Do give detailed information from the interviewee.
-Don’t give me a transcript of the interview.
-Do use proper academic sources to check your information and enhance your paper.
-Don’t ever, ever, use a dot com as a source.
-Do use proper citations.
-Don’t use a citation style that differs from the course citation guide.
-Do talk about the religion of the interviewee.
-Don’t tell me how it differs from your own. (You are not the subject of this assignment.)
-Do write with proper paragraphs.
-Don’t just create paragraphs arbitrarily.
-do not start your paper “For this assignment I interviewed Mary Smith about her Methodist religion.” You should say something like: “Methodism is a religion that originates …… According to Mary Smith, Methodists are…”
-Your sources must be academic (they MUST have an author) and must be properly cited. See the course citation guide.