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REL 402 - World's Living Religions

Final Exam

Due 12 midnight, Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Open Book : Take about two hours : Answer your choice of 6 questions out of 8
That means that you should spend about 20 minutes on each answer

Send an e-mail to Dr. Rollinson with your answers, either directly in the e-mail, or as a word.doc attachment. It is a good idea to write your answers with a Word-processing program first, save them to disk, and then copy and paste them into the email message, or send them as an attachment. If you save them to disk first, you will still have them in case there are problems with the computers or the email.

Remember to put your name and email address at the head of your answer page
Questions 1-5 show thumbnail pictures - click on them to see a larger picture. Identify the object, person, place, etc; Identify the religion with which it is associated, and describe how the object is related to the religion.
For questions 6-8 you should consider all the religions listed below. You may give the answers in the form of a chart, or as a written essay.
An MSWord .doc file of a blank chart can be downloaded here

Logos and symbols - identify the religion to which the symbol belongs, and describe what the symbol means.

A
B
C

D
E
F
Religious Figures - identify the person, and describe how he/she relates to a particular religion. Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture.

A
B
C

D
E
F
Places - identify the place, and describe why it is sacred to one of the religions. Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture.

A
B
C

D
E
F
Religious articles - identify the article, and describe how it relates to one of the religions.
Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture. F is already full size

A
B
C

D
E
F
Religious People - For A, B, and C : identify the position or title associated with the person, and describe how he/she functions in his/her religion.
For D, E, F : identify the religion to which the people belong, and describe what they are doing
Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture. C is already full size

A
B
C

D
E
F
For each of the Religions - What is the concept of the Supreme Deity (name and attributes), or does the Religion accept multiple deities, or none at all
For each of the Religions - are there regular times of communal worship, if so, where does it take place, and how is it conducted
For each of the Religions - what are the sacred texts (if any), who wrote them (if known), when (if known)

List of Religions for Questions 6-8 :
Judaism, Samaritans, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Unitarian Univesalists, Islam, Bahai, Druze, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Chinese traditional religion, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, traditional Navajo religion, Rastafarianism, Theosophy

Download a blank chart of the Religions

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