Describe the facility outside and inside. Describe the congregation—ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, age, number present.

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Understanding  Christianity

In order to better understand Christianity, each student is required to make 1 visits to Christian churches and groups. There are limits to what can be learned about religious communities from books, lectures and class discussions. The sights, smells and sounds of a religion in action are just as significant.

Given the current COVID crisis, students can visit an online service or an in-person service.

Students have to visit 1 of the 3 divisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism).. STUDENTS SHOULD MAKE SURE THEIR 1 GROUPS ARE FROM DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF CHRISTIANITY. If A STUDENT IS UNSURE WHICH DIVISION OF CHRISTIANITY A GROUP BELONGS TO, THEY SHOULD ASK THE PROFESSOR FOR ASSISTANCE.

After each visit, students are required to write a 750-word report on the visit

Visit is due by midnight CT 11/13.

In Week 13 Discussion 14’s topic will be everyone’s visits. This will allow students to do collaborative learning.

Each visit report is worth 115 points.

Each visit report is graded using the grading rubric posted on Blackboard.

Visit Reports should include:
• General Information
• Full name, address and religious affiliation of the group
• Date and time of visit
• Name and type of service attended

• Observations
• Describe the facility outside and inside.
• Describe the congregation—ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, age, number present (Does this equal the number of members?)
• Describe the service attended: make sure to include as many beliefs, lifestyle issues, rituals and institutions seen
• Compare and Contrast the two groups visited by discussing 2 similarities and/or differences between groups in the 2nd visit report.
• Personal Reactions

Students should honesty talk about how they felt about the service attended. The professor has heard it all—good and bad. But, say more than “I really liked it” or “I really disliked it.” Students should discuss these feelings. They should not say something like, “I don’t really have any reaction.”

• Other Guidelines
• Students cannot visit their own religious group
• Students cannot visit a former religious group unless permission has been given by the professor
• Students can go alone or with a fellow student, friend, spouse or significant other
• Students can go to an alternative service. The service does not have to be a Sunday AM service
• Check the web, ask friends or work colleagues about where to go. In a city such as Nashville, all three divisions are amply represented.
• Students should feel free to ask about possible places to visit.

Could you please do it on an Eastern Christianity branch or Protestant branch since I already did a report on Roman Catholic

Discuss the relationship between spirituality and stress and well-being.

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Religion Question

Discuss the relationship between spirituality and stress and well-being.

The World Health Organization claims that spiritual well-being is an integral aspect of overall well-being.

Chapter 8 of your textbook presents a number of spiritual paths. Each path offers a different perspective on human spirituality and serves as a road map to achieve spiritual growth and well-being.

 

 

How do Japan’s demographic separation, geographic isolation, and sense of self-consciousness manifest themselves during interaction with strangers of other cultures?

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 Transitional phase

Can you think of examples to help explain the notion that Russia remains in a transitional phase?

How do Japan’s demographic separation, geographic isolation, and sense of self-consciousness manifest themselves during interaction with strangers of other cultures?

 

Do you believe that globalization will have a positive or a negative impact on the world’s religious institutions? Explain how its religious views are linked to a culture’s lifestyle.

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Globalization

  1. Do you believe that globalization will have a positive or a negative impact on the world’s religious institutions?
  2. Explain how its religious views are linked to a culture’s lifestyle.
  3. Explain the statement: “Religion is only one kind of worldview.”
  4. What common set of ethics can you identify from the six religious traditions discussed in this chapter?
  5. Since religion touches all aspects of human life, should it be separated from government?
  6. What role might religion play in an intercultural communication encounter?

Why has religion been relevant to humankind for more than ten thousand years? Also, ask those you are working with why religion has been shadowed by so much violence for thousands of years.

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Working with others, answer the following:

  • Why has religion been relevant to humankind for more than ten thousand years? Also, ask those you are working with why religion has been shadowed by so much violence for thousands of years.

Go to YouTube and search for videos that show a religious service inside a Catholic church, an Islamic mosque, and a Buddhist temple. Make note of the rituals, messages, art, music, and space that you deem offer insight into each religious tradition. Also, what do these services have in common, and how do they differ?

Working with others, discuss the following question:

  • How does my view of death compare with the beliefs found in the six great religious traditions? As part of your discussion, include observations on how a person’s perception of death might influence his or her behavior.

In a group, identify and discuss the common principles and practices you see among all of the major religions.

Working in a group, discuss the following question:

  • Do religious scriptures, in the same manner as the U.S. Constitution, need constant reinterpretation with each generation?

 

Why do you think that people who follow the Jewish religious tradition have experienced such a high degree of repression, genocide, and discrimination during their long history?

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Why do you think that people who follow the Jewish religious tradition have experienced such a high degree of repression, genocide, and discrimination during their long history?

What can you learn about a culture and its people by studying how their religion explains dying and an afterlife?

The Islamic notion of jihad includes more than one interpretation.

What are some of those interpretations?

What is meant by the phrase “Islam is a complete way of life”?

What are some examples that would validate the truth of this assertion?

What do Hindus mean when they say, “Truth does not come to the individual; it already resides within each of us”?

What in Buddhist philosophy led Buddha to instruct his fol-lowers that he was “Not a God, but only a man seeking the truth”?

Why do cultures conceive of death in so many different ways?

Which orientation comes closest to your conception of death?

 

Name three to five common factors in the books of the Old Testament? How does the use of themes help us better understand the text of the Bible? Why do you think God wants to have a relationship with people and what are the benefits of that relationship?

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APA Analysis paper

This week, you will write a comprehensive APA Analysis paper utilizing all the knowledge you have gained in REL 1010. You should use the previous four themes to assist you in formulating and writing this paper. Your final essay should be a minimum of 1500 word count in which you address and discuss the statement and questions below. You will need at least four scholarly sources. If you need support on how to formulate your APA Analysis paper, you may refer to your APA Template under the Resource tab or contact the CPS Librarians. Please refer to your grading rubric for guidance. Upon completion, you will click on the Dropbox tab to submit your paper for grading. Be sure that you do not self-plagiarize from the previous weeks.

  • Name three to five common factors in the books of the Old Testament?
  • How does the use of themes help us better understand the text of the Bible?
  • Why do you think God wants to have a relationship with people and what are the benefits of that relationship?
  • How do you think God seeks to govern our lives today?
  • Name three primary messages from God’s prophets.
  • How is God’s wisdom different from the world’s wisdom?

 

Based on what you have learned thus far, identify and explain the characteristics of a cross-cultural worker. Discuss the role of the cross-cultural worker in empowering local believers and supporting local churches or church planting movements.

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Essay: Cross-Cultural Worker Assignment Instructions

Overview

This essay requires you to synthesize information from “PERSPECTIVES on the world Christian movement: A Reader, Fourth Edition by Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne” (This book is free online) in order to articulate a biblical basis for global engagement and to analyze general aspects of culture and society as it relates to global engagement.

 

Instructions

Remember to engage and interact with our course material and the scriptures as you answer the following questions:

 

  1. Based on what you have learned thus far, identify and explain the characteristics of a cross-cultural worker.
  2. Discuss the role of the cross-cultural worker in empowering local believers and supporting local churches or church planting movements. Focus your answer on Western missionaries working in contexts outside of the United States.

 

  • Be sure to meet the requirements laid out in the rubric.
  • Do not include the question in your essay, the assignment should read as a formal academic paper, thus academic language, proper grammar, spelling, and paragraphing is expected.
  • Your response the above questions should total at least 450 words, but no more than 750. Note that the questions themselves and footnotes do not count towards your word count.
  • Follow current Turabian style formatting for your citations and footnotes.
  • You name and course information should be on the upper right corner of your paper (not in the header). Do not include a title page.
  • The assignment should be completed in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double spaced.
  • Remember to support your thoughts/statements with course material and the scriptures.
  • Include a minimum of 2 citations. Use our readings and the Bible as your sources.
  • Do not use a dictionary or do a web search for definitions of worldview. You must come up with your own definition based on what you learned from the course material.
  • Do not plagiarize! You should submit your entry as a reflection of what you have learned, not a word for word copy of your readings or any other source.

 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

 

How does worldview affect cultural, political, economic, and industrial aspects of society? Why is it important to consider worldview when sharing the gospel with someone from a different cultural background than your own?

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Essay: Worldview Assignment Instructions

Overview

This assignment requires you to synthesize information from “PERSPECTIVES on the world Christian movement: A Reader, Fourth Edition by Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne” (This book is free online) in order to articulate a biblical basis for global engagement, and to analyze general aspects of culture and society as it relates to global engagement.

 

Instructions

Remember to engage and interact with our course material and the scriptures as you answer the following questions:

  1. Based on our course readings, define worldview in your own.
  2. How does worldview affect cultural, political, economic, and industrial aspects of society?
  3. Why is it important to consider worldview when sharing the gospel with someone from a different cultural background than your own?

 

  • Be sure to meet the requirements laid out in the rubric.
  • Do not include the question in your paper, the essay should read as a formal academic paper, thus academic language, proper grammar, spelling, and paragraphing is expected.
  • Your response the above questions should total at least 450 words, but no more than 750. Note that the questions themselves and footnotes do not count towards your word count.
  • Follow current Turabian style formatting for your citations and footnotes.
  • You name and course information should be on the upper right corner of your paper (not in the header). Do not include a title page.
  • The assignment should be completed in Times New Roman, 12-point font, and double spaced.
  • Remember to support your thoughts/statements with course material and the scriptures.
  • Include a minimum of 2 citations. Use our readings and the Bible as your sources.
  • Do not use a dictionary or do a web search for definitions of worldview. You must come up with your own definition based on what you learned from the course material.
  • Do not plagiarize! You should submit your entry as a reflection of what you have learned, not a word for word copy of the readings or any other source.

 

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

 

Write down thoughts/insights that came to you as you look over data that interests you, and share them with the class. Write, at minimum, three to five sentences per each thought/insight.

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The Impact of Religiosity on the Sexual Behaviors of College Students

Read the short article “The Impact of Religiosity on the Sexual Behaviors of College Students,”

Write down thoughts/insights that came to you as you look over data that interests you, and share them with the class. Write, at minimum, three to five sentences per each thought/insight.