Description FALL 2020 COVID-19 NOTE: Usually in this class you’re asked to attend a community ritual performance of your choosing to reflect upon. However, this time I want you stay home and safe, and think back upon a recent live event you attended and use that event for this assignment. Some examples of a Community […]
Consider all that you have read and viewed so far this term – the readings, the course videos, and all of the other content – and then answer the following questions: Based on the course material, how “just” and/or “fair” is the world and the relationship that exists between man and god that is envisioned […]
Shinto is a unique religion in many ways, in part because it is so tied to the history of a specific location, Japan, and because it can be classified as polytheistic, pantheistic, or even animistic in nature. It developed in 500 BCE and has no known founder. In this, it is like an indigenous religion, […]
Your goal is to choose a ritual that you participate in your community (the community can be your family or your broader community – not something that you do by yourself) that illustrates the elements typically found in rituals. Again, you will have to become familiar with the elements of rituals as explained in the […]
Research a cultural myth/story/cultural history.describe the myth and discuss how it both relates to and reinforces the worldview which it emerges. How does this culture expressthe myth(storytelling,dance,ritual,music)?
