Provide an examples and analysis in your body paragraphs, giving 2 scholarly sources for each religion and use your text and/or lesson. Summarize your thoughts and how what you learned relates to your own personal world or religious views.

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Week 3 Assignment: Buddhist and Hindu Beliefs Comparison Essay

Instructions
Select two (2) of the following pairs and compare each of the terms (in that pair) as it is understood and practiced in the religious traditions of both Hinduism and Buddhism:

  • Self/No-self
  • Samsara/Nirvana
  • Karma/Rebirth
  • Include the following in your paper:

Introduction that clearly states your central goal (brief)
Thoughtful examples and analysis in your body paragraphs, giving 2 scholarly sources for each religion and use your text and/or lesson.
Conclusion to summarize your thoughts and how what you learned relates to your own personal world or religious views.

Describe, with examples, how this is a path to the Divine and leads a person to realization. Why did you choose this path to discuss? Determine how your understanding of your chosen yoga might relate to your professional standards of care.

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Week 2 Discussion: Hinduism

Option 1
Choose and describe one of the five (Brahman, Atman, Maya, Karma, Samsara, Moksha) key concepts from the Upanishads.

Explain how this concept relates to any of the other four or to other expressions of Indian spirituality?
Use a quote from the Upanishads to support your thoughts
Why did you choose this concept and how does it relate to your own understanding or beliefs?

Option 2
Choose and describe one of the four yoga. Include the following:

Describe, with examples, how this is a path to the Divine and leads a person to realization.
Why did you choose this path to discuss?
Determine how your understanding of your chosen yoga might relate to your professional standards of care.

Explain the Buddhist understanding of dukkha. Why do many scholars feel that “suffering” may be a misleading translation of the word dukkha? What might be a better translation? What did the Buddha offer as a way to overcome dukkha and how does it explain his understanding?

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Week 3 Discussion: Buddhism

Option 1
For this option, address the following:

Define Theravada and Mahayana forms of Buddhism.
Describe the Arhat and the Bodhisattva and explain how each achieves the goal of nirvana.
Examine how each ideal relates to one or more of the following key concepts/teachings: Four Noble Truths, Three marks of reality, Noble Eightfold Path.
Explain which of these ideals you believe best expresses healthcare ideals.

Option 2
For this option, address the following:

Explain the Buddhist understanding of dukkha.
Why do many scholars feel that “suffering” may be a misleading translation of the word dukkha? What might be a better translation?
What did the Buddha offer as a way to overcome dukkha and how does it explain his understanding?
In what ways does the Buddhist notion of dukkha challenge or affirm Western medical practice?

Describe why each of your chosen reasons is important to your personal worldview. Apply at least one of your chosen reasons to your profession and its standards of care.

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Week 1 Discussion: The Study of Religion

Option 1
Choose one (1) of the following psychological views on the origin of religion:

  • Freud
  • James
  • Jung
  • Then, address the following:

Briefly describe your chosen theory as believed by the theorist.
Defend your choice by discussing why this theory is the best explanation as to the origin of religions.

Option 2
Choose two (2) of the ten reasons to study religion listed in your text and address the following:

Explain each reason.
Describe why each of your chosen reasons is important to your personal worldview.
Apply at least one of your chosen reasons to your profession and its standards of care.

Explain how the etic and emic perspectives describe your own religion or a religion with which you are familiar. In etic, explain how an objective researcher would describe the religion including specific elements. In emic, explain how a practicing member would see the same reality.

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Week 1 Assignment: Understanding Religion Essay

Choose only one (1) of the following two options:

Option 1: Eight Characteristics of Religion
In an essay, address the following:

Identify and briefly describe the eight key characteristics of religion developed in your reading.
Choose 2 for further explanation and include an example for each of your chosen characteristics as demonstrated in a given religion. (You may use different religions for each characteristic or stay with one throughout.)
Why did you choose these 2 reasons? How do they relate to your own religious worldview or your clinical practice?
Option 2: Etic and Emic Views
In an essay, address the following:

Explain how the etic and emic perspectives describe your own religion or a religion with which you are familiar.
In etic, explain how an objective researcher would describe the religion including specific elements. In emic, explain how a practicing member would see the same reality.
Quote an “authoritative religious leader” from this religion as part of your emic paragraph, in addition to your scholarly source. (E.g., Buddhism-Dali Lama; Catholicism-Pope)

How does understanding this add to your understanding of your chosen religion?
What does it add to your approach to patient care?
Click on the following link to view an example for Option 2 (Shinto):

Link: Shinto Example

Hopefully you can see the difference between the etic approach using facts and objective information devoid of emotion or attachment whereas the believer (emic) approach showed devotion, faith, appealed to the senses and emotion. The quotes showed personal faith. Your emic view does not have to use quotes, except for the religious leader requirement, but it needs to show a personal view.

Evaluate a current artist myth using the Hero’s Journey. Carefully review the Hero’s Journey power point and select a movie or one episode of a TV show and apply the Hero’s journey to that particular movie or episode.

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Hero’s Journey

Evaluate a current artist myth using the Hero’s Journey. Carefully review the Hero’s Journey power point and select a movie or one episode of a TV show and apply the Hero’s journey to that particular movie or episode. You are restricted to English language movies, not translations. You may only use a movie or one episode of a TV show—that is part of the directions, so please follow them. Do not use any three of the films (or sequels, prequels etc) in the PowerPoint as those have already been done, and one of them is in the example following the analyzation example.

What is an “author”—as described by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault—and what is the controversy surrounding “the death of the author”? Along with discussing these, engage the idea of “authorship” in Buddhist communities.

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The death of the author

The themes of authors, author-functions, and audiences have been pivotal for the last part of the class. What is an “author”—as described by Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault—and what is the controversy surrounding “the death of the author”? Along with discussing these, engage the idea of “authorship” in Buddhist communities. For this, you might draw on Sara McClintock’s discussions of the Buddha’s omniscience in Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason, or her discussion of Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla in that same text. You might also discuss Schaeffer’s treatment of Saraha as an author

Write a 1,200 word paper on that religion exploring its history and development; use at least three strong sources besides your text and provide a bibliography in MLA format.

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The Evolution of Islam

Write a 1,200 word paper on that religion exploring its history and development; use at least three strong sources besides your text and provide a bibliography in MLA format; 3) will include at least 200 words of personal reflection on that religion (this is in addition to the 1,200 words of research)

Provide a sociohistorical analysis of that religion. Use the sociology of religion paradigm to analyze the American-born religion. Summarize that religion’s impact on American society. Describe whether or not the religion reflects a Christian worldview. Explain why.

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Mormons

Create an essay of 1,000-1,250 words on American-born religions. Choose one American-born religion to analyze. Include the following:

Provide a sociohistorical analysis of that religion.
Use the sociology of religion paradigm to analyze the American-born religion.
Summarize that religion’s impact on American society.
Describe whether or not the religion reflects a Christian worldview. Explain why.

Compare how the act of marriage affects the rights and freedoms of women in Islam and Orthodox Judaism religions?

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Rights and Freedoms of Women within Marriage

The thesis statment should be in the form of: I would argue that women in Islam have “more, less, similar, different” rights and freedoms than women in Orthodox Judaism. You can insert more, less, similar, different in that spot depending on the research and this statement should be included in the introduction paragraph. The first sentence should state what the research paper will be discussing something like This paper will compare how the act of marriage affects the rights and freedoms of women in Islam and Orthodox Judaism religions?