Religion

RELI 1111 FALL 2020
FINAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT

Please write an essay on topic below in at least 1000 words and submit on D2L by 9 PM Wednesday, December 2. Submissions must be uploaded as either an MS Word or PDF document (other formats such as Google Drive links or other cloud file sharing applications are not acceptable). You may use any of the assigned readings for the course or materials that you have found through the GC Library (do not use sources you found through Google, Wikipedia, etc.). Please avoid long quotations as that is only filler for a paper of this length. Do not reproduce something you wrote for a weekly response question, or for another class (all original writing, no self-plagiarism!). Where citations are necessary, you may use footnotes (Chicago Style) or in-text citations (MLA). Five points (out of 30) will be deducted for every 24 hours late.

• The purpose of this course is to give a general overview of the history and belief structure of the world’s major religious traditions. Choose one western religion (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and one Asian religion (Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism) and compare an important dimension to their thought (theology, theodicy, belief in the afterlife, etc.). How is this dimension essential to each of the two traditions you have chosen? I.e., how is it essential to their respective moral worldviews? How are they similar and different across the two traditions? How could a person from one of the two traditions find common ground to describe this aspect of their tradition to someone from the other tradition?