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For more course tutorials visitwww.uophelp.com REL 133 Week 1 Individual Assignment Elements of Religious Traditions PaperREL 133 Week 1 DQ 1REL 133 Week 1 DQ 2REL 133 Week 1 DQ 3REL 133 Week 1 DQ 4REL 133 Week 2 Individual Assignment Four Yogic Paths and Jainism WorksheetREL 133 Week 2 DQ 1REL 133 Week 2 DQ 2REL 133 Week 2 DQ 3REL 133 Week 2 DQ 4REL 133 Week 3 Individual Assignment Buddhism WorksheetREL 133 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Buddhism PresentationREL 133 Week 3 DQ 1REL 133 Week 3 DQ 2REL 133 Week 3 DQ 3REL 133 Week 4 Individual Assignment Daoism, Confucianism, and ShintoREL 133 Week 4 DQ 1REL 133 Week 4 DQ 2REL 133 Week 4 DQ 3REL 133 Week 4 DQ 4REL 133 Week 5 Individual Assignment Common Elements of Eastern Religious TraditionsREL 133 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Contemporary Issues in Eastern Religions Paper and PresentationREL 133 Week 5 DQ 1REL 133 Week 5 DQ 2

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REL 133 Week 1 Individual Assignment Elements of Religious Traditions Paper

REL 133 Week 1 DQ 1REL 133 Week 1 DQ 2REL 133 Week 1 DQ 3REL 133 Week 1 DQ 4

• How do you define the word religion? What elements are commonly associated with religious traditions?

REL 133 Week 1 DQ 1

How do you define the word sacred? How do religious traditions orient their conception and location of the sacred?

From the reading, what are the basic elements of religion?

 

REL 133 Week 1 DQ 3

What are some difficulties in trying to define religion and religious beliefs?

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that does the following:

  Describes these basic

components of religious traditions and their relationship to the sacred:

  What a religious tradition says

—its teachings, texts, doctrine, stories, myths, and others

What a religious tradition does—worship, prayer, pilgrimage, ritual, and so forth

REL 133 Week 1 Individual Assignment

What are the Vedas? How do the Upanishads differ from the Vedas?

• What are the stages of life in traditional Hindu teaching? Imagine you are a practicing Hindu. Which life stage are you in? How does it affect your daily activities?

REL 133 Week 2 DQ 2

 What do the terms

brahman, atman, maya, karma, samsara, and moksha mean? How do these terms relate to each other in Hindu teachings?

 

• What forms of devotion and spirituality are common in Hinduism?

REL 133 Week 2 DQ 4

Resource: Understanding Religious Beliefs and Traditions I simulation

Complete the University Material: Four Yogic Paths and Jainism Worksheet located on the student website.

• What were the key experiences in the life of the Buddha? Why were those experiences important?

REL 133 Week 3 DQ 1

What are the Three Jewels of Buddhism? What are the Four Noble Truths? What are the steps of the Noble Eightfold Path? How do these teachings inform the practice of Buddhism?

Do you identify Buddhism as a religion? Why or why not? How does it contrast with other traditional religions?

 

REL 133 Week 3 DQ 3

Complete the University Material: Buddhism Worksheet located on the student website.

Resource: Buddhism Worksheet

Consult the facilitator regarding the assignment of one of the following Buddhist traditions:

Theravada Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism Vajrayana Buddhism

REL 133 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment

What are the basic elements of early Chinese belief? How did these elements influence later beliefs?

How would you describe the two main, early teachers of Daoism: Laozi (Lao Tzu) and Zhuangzi (Chauang Tzu)? How did each influence the development of Daoism?

 

REL 133 Week 4 DQ 2

What elements of Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto are characteristic of Eastern religious traditions studied in this course?

• How does Confucianism differ with Taoism?

REL 133 Week 4 DQ 4

Part 1: Reflections on the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) Worksheet

Complete the University Material: Reflections on the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) Worksheet located on the student website.

• What are the common characteristics of the Eastern religious traditions?

REL 133 Week 5 DQ 1

What are the effects of science on religion in the modern world? Do religions have an effect on science? Explain how.

Choose three of the Eastern religious traditions studied in the course.

Complete the University Material: Common Elements of Eastern Religious Traditions template located on the student website.

REL 133 Week 5 Individual Assignment

Consult the facilitator regarding the assignment of one of the Eastern religious traditions studied in the course.

Field Exercise: Learning Team members visit a sacred site of the specific religion. While all do not need to visit the same location at the same time, each member is required to contribute their own experience in the Final Paper and Presentation

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