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Religion 3 Project 1 Guidelines
 
 
Students will work in pairs to create a project surrounding a non-Christian religious group. It may or may not be in the form of a paper. Students are encouraged to be creative. However, regardless of the project format, each project must be accompanied by a 4-7 typewritten pages that thoroughly explain the project. Included within the paper, students should answer the following questions:

What did you think or know about this religion before doing this project?
What are the main beliefs of this religion?
Do they have a religious leader and what is their role in the religion?
Do they have sacred writings/scriptures and what do they do with them?
What form of worship do they engage in?
What is their view of God?
What is their view of creation?
What is their view on the nature of humanity?
What is their view of salvation?
Do they have any beliefs that are similar to Christianity? If yes, which ones and explain.
How do their beliefs, worship, and attitude about God compare to Christianity in general?
How do their beliefs, worship, and attitude about God compare to Adventism specifically?
What is your reaction to what you have learned about this religion?
If you met someone of this faith, how would you explain Adventist beliefs to them?

Students may choose for the following topics and/or discuss with the teacher an acceptable alternative topic:

Hinduism
Buddhism
Sunni Islam
Shi’a Islam
Reformed Judaism
Orthodox Judaism
Unitarian
Baha’i
Sikh
Confusionists
Jehovah Witnesses

By Oct 2 all groups will submit an initial concept for their project and outline of their paper, including full bibliographic documentation of five sources that the teacher can review, apart from websites, and this course’s textbooks [25%]

By the Oct 16 all groups will submit the first page of the paper including introduction and initial development of the body of the paper [25%]

Completed project and paper with full bibliography submitted by Oct 30 [25%]

Groups will be scheduled to present their projects to the class at various intervals throughout the month of November [25%]
 
Students will be graded on thoroughness/accuracy, cohesiveness, creativity, neatness, grammar/spelling. 


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