Category: Religion

In a minimum of 500 words, respond to the following prompts.
1. What is your opinion about Christians working to convert other Christians, who are not in their denomination to join them, to save them from the consequences of sin and earn the rewards of heaven?
2. What’s your opinion about converting non-Christians?
3. What about doing Christ-like good works in faith-based missionary settings whether in inner-cities or in impoverished countries?
4. Have you had any experiences in this type of charitable regard? If so, what good did it do for you. If not, would you seek one out?

In your readings in Week 2 (specifically Kline 2013, page 10) and in Week 3 (specifically Sushil and Thursby 2018, page 8 and 9), the authors discuss the tensions that can exist with having personal religious beliefs in the academic study of religion. Review these readings. Do you think it is possible for a scholar to engage in an objective study of religion? Is an objective study even desirable? Grapple with this question and make direct reference to these readings in your answer.
minimum 200 to 500 maximum words. do not exceed pls. I will provide the readings. Satisfactory responses must include evidence of critical thought AND direct reflection on course material, as well as proper spelling and grammar.
citation should be Chicago Manual of Style 17 edition

1. Christian Theology
(Original Content Only) (Discussion Board Post) (600 words)
(must include APA citations)
(In-text citations) (Biblical scripture must be mentioned inside the post and cited)
Why is the doctrine of the Trinity so important if the word does not even appear in the Bible? Briefly explain the concept. Support your work using Scripture and the course reading.
2. Renewal
(Original Content Only) (Discussion Board Post) (400 words) (APA citations)
(must include in-text citations)
(In-text citations) (Biblical scripture must be mentioned inside the post and cited)
All Church revitalizations and renewals depend upon the heart and minds of an existing congregation (albeit dying or plateauing). Additionally, to reach a community, those hearts require renewal and transformation for the mission of God.
Understanding and applying Christ’s love is imperative. Provide three examples of how, as a leader, you could teach, illustrate, or apply Christ’s love to the congregation in a manner that might become infectious and transformative?

3. Graduate Transformation
(3 paragraphs) (APA citations) (in-text citations are a must)
Surveying all that you’ve learned in this course so far, what lessons have been most significant for you? How do you see yourself becoming a member of the academic community? What does that mean to you? What challenges do you foresee with regard to academic writing? How will you overcome these challenges? What fears and excitements are you feeling as you start this program?
Course Description
MAPC 601. GRADUATE TRANSFORMATION I: WRITING AND RESEARCH (3). Explores strategies, methods and skills for locating and evaluating graduate research literature. Familiarizes students with specialized academic journals and literature within specializations. Explores graduate research methods, including qualitative and quantitative research paradigms.
Course Objectives This course is designed to achieve the following outcomes for our students:
To provide students with a positive graduate learning experience in their first or second course.
To provide the opportunity for students to explore literature in their field.
To practice and improve academic writing skills.
To introduce students to the use of APA style and formatting guidelines.
To help students develop skills in locating and evaluating literature in their field.
To introduce or refresh student understanding of the research process and how research is conducted in their field.
Course Materials Required Texts
There are 3 textbooks required for this course; these texts should continue to be of use throughout your academic career. Keep them after you have completed this course so that you may refer to them in other courses.
Booth, W. C., Colomb, G. G., Williams, J. M., Bizup, J., & Fitzgerald, W.T. (2016). The craft of research. (4th ed.). University of Chicago Press.
Wallace, M. & Wray, A. (2021). Critical reading and writing for postgraduates. (4rd ed.). SAGE Publications.
4. Graduate Transformation
(Original Content Only) (5 journals) (3 pages) (my field is Religious Studies)
(Topic: Modern Religious Militant Groups (Christian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindu)
Part I: Find 5 journals (not journal articles) in your field using the Regis library. List them in a Word document. You will be adding to this list as you progress through the course.
Part II: The main assignment this week is designed to introduce you to writing and to the research in your field. Under your list of 5 journals, insert a page break so that you will start Part II on a clean page.
The first step of the assignment is to do research on your field (my field is religious studies). Depending on your field, you may want to check newspapers, magazines, library databases where one can find articles published in scholarly journals, and Google Scholar (once in Google, hit the “more” link and find “Scholar” on the dropdown menu), among other possible sources, for information on the state of your discipline or area of interest.
Then, write a 3 page (not including the cover page, reference page, or journal list), double-spaced paper discussing the trends or topics you have found in your preliminary search. Include an APA cover page.
In your paper, explain what current trends you found. Explain what is currently being studied within your area of interest. Determine if there are hot topics or controversial findings within your field. For example, within organizational communication, there were many studies carried out on bullying in the workplace over the course of several years. A common topic now is downsizing and its relation to survivor syndrome. There is also work being done on the effect of sleep deprivation on mood and communication as well as productivity. Use this assignment to determine what is happening in your field. The paper should follow a basic essay format that includes an introduction with a thesis statement, a body that explains your main points, and a conclusion. You should also cite sources. Provide information on which ideas came from which sources. You will learn more and more about APA style as we proceed through the course, but take your best shot at using APA style so that you can start to familiarize yourself with the patterns and rules.
Before submitting your paper, ask yourself the following questions. If you answer “no” to any of the following questions, take the opportunity revise your paper. For this paper, it is okay to write in the first person.
Is the introduction interesting? Is it brief? Is it connected to the topic of the paper?
Can you easily identify your thesis statement (i.e., the conclusion of the paper, i.e., what you are arguing in support of)?
Is your thesis statement included in the first paragraph?
Are the main points that support your thesis or purpose clearly explained in the introduction?
Does each paragraph have a clearly articulated main topic?
Does each sentence relate to the main point of that paragraph and to the overall purpose of the paper?
Do you present clear transitions to let the reader know you are changing topics?
5. Social Psychology
(Original Content Only) (Discussion Board Post) (3 paragraphs) (APA citations) (in-text citations are a must)
(Link for the explanation of the Fundamental Attribution of error is listed Below)
Topic: The Fundamental Attribution Error
https://www.simplypsychology.org/fundamental-attri…
We interpret quite a bit about the nature of another person from interacting with her or observing her behavior. Sometimes we misinterpret her nature or intentions based on what we see.
Read carefully the section in the text on the fundamental attribution error. Now think about a situation at your job or in your personal life where you might fall prey to that error. Describe the situation and your attributions of causation.
Consider first impressions across many different contexts: what role do biases play in forming those impressions? Analyze the factors which contribute to or detract from the accuracy of first impressions.

6. Social Psychology
(Original Content Only) (3 paragraphs) (APA citations) (in-text citations are a must)
Topic: Emotional and Social Intelligence
Nonverbal communication, empathy, emotional and social intelligence—all of these are functions we use every day both at work and in our homes and social interactions. We use them to discern when people are truthful or deceitful, to interpret the feelings and motivations of another, and to back up our own verbal communications.
Researchers are discovering that much of our social perception and social intelligence is drawn from the automatic functioning of the brain, the priming and automatic understandings provided by the mirror neurons and other processes researched by Iacoboni, Bargh, Dijksterhuis, and others.
For decades, social psychologists have been studying social interactions from the outside, recording the data from observation and self-report in controlled social experiments. Now, through the new scientific technologies, neuroscientists and social scientists can actually track the working of the mind and brain during these same situations. Through this modality, ground-breaking insights have been achieved.
Watch or review the video of Daniel Goleman speaking to a group of managers at Google about social and emotional intelligence. Think about what you have learned in this week’s topics on social cognition and social perception. Consider the role of the amygdala bypass in decision-making, or a tendency to resort to heuristics in stressful situations. How might the functions of mirror neurons account for our social perceptions? What role might mindfulness training play in the ability to remain present in stressful situations or in the processing of social perceptions?

7. Social Psychology
(Original Content Only) (3 pages) (APA citations) (in-text citations are a must)
(Journal Article is attached at the bottom- A Theory of Unconscious Thought)
Critical Review of a Journal Article Context:
One key outcome of this course is to provide you with the skills to analyze different research articles.
Instructions:
For this assignment, you will write 1 critical review of a journal articles listed in your assigned readings. Each review will be based on a journal article of your choosing, from those listed in the course readings (available under Content/Course Videos & Resources/Articles).
Each review should be 3 pages long – not including cover page and reference page – in APA format. Answer each of the elements listed below in a separate paragraph. That is, you do not need to weave all elements together into a seamless paper. The papers will be graded in the usual way for content and format. Each of your critical reviews should address the following 9 elements:
Provide the full APA style citation for your article.
Brief note about each author (e.g., where they work and what they study). If there are more than three authors, just include the first three.
List the researchers’ hypotheses.
Describe the study design (e.g., correlational study, observational study, randomized controlled trial, etc.). This can be tough. Refer to your textbook and feel free to ask questions of your classmates.
What were the independent and dependent variables? How were each measured?
What were the main results or findings?
How do you think this study impacts our understanding of humans and human behavior?
Make one connection between this study and your personal or professional life.

The cultures I picked is North American and my own cultures is Haitian American from Haiti.
1. Conduct an interview with the person you chose from the target culture. Use the questions that you developed in previous units.
2. Then teach the Uncommon Power Bible Study to the person. It should take about 15 minutes. Be sure to follow the culturally relevant strategies you designed.
Part 2: Report
Write a 5-7 page paper about your experience. Utilize the Final Project Report Template. Include the following:
1. Introduction – (1/2 – 3/4 page)
2. Interview – (4 pages)
a. Interview Responses: Summarize the responses to the 8-10 interview questions.
b. Summary: Summarize your experience doing the interview. Was it awkward or comfortable? Did the interviewee readily give answers or was he/she sometimes hesitant? Also, discuss what you learned about the target culture. Was there any new information you didn’t know before?
3. Bible study – (approx. 1 page)
a. Summarize your experience teaching the Bible study. How well do you feel that you presented the Bible study? How was it received? Did your interviewee provide any feedback? If you give this Bible study again in the future, would you change anything about your presentation, and if so, what?
4. Reflection – reflect on your experience (1-2 pages)
a. In the interview and the Bible study, did you employ some of the cultural strategies you learned about in this course? If so, which ones? How did they affect your experience and the experience of your interviewee? Be specific.
b. What ideas do you have for reaching out to more people in the target culture? In a previous assignment, you shared 2-4 recommendations of strategies for effectively sharing the gospel with people from the target culture. Do you think those strategies are still appropriate or would you modify them based on this experience?
c. If my new friend comes to church and gets born again, what ideas do I have for helping him/her stay connected despite the cultural differences?
d. Overall, what did you learn from this experience?

The students are provided with links to 3 museums that have permanent collections of objects of art from the Muslim world. Students are required to visit these collections and select and curate ONE object to submit as their contribution to the Class exhibition “Art of the Muslim World.” Everything else is in the assignment document which I will attach below.

Step 1: Based on the exercise in unit 1, review the cultural differences between your own culture and the culture you are studying, then thoroughly review the material you have learned about the chosen culture and your own culture. You should spend 1-2 hours reviewing the following:
**Readings in the Morrison and Conaway text for the target country/culture and your own culture.
**Lectures and articles in the previous units that address cultural factors and witnessing someone from your target culture.
Step 2: Write a 3-page summary of the information you have learned about the culture. https://youtu.be/_eJc1yL3Yfghttps://youtu.be/_eJc1yL3Yfg?si=CWA345QfG-mB5SEz

In 850-900 words! Greek philosophy, Hebrew Scripture, and Buddhist teachings each have a view about evil. For this essay, select two of these worldviews. Then, compare the two. You might explain what one of them would say in answer to the other’s view about the nature of good and evil. For example, if a Buddhist encountered the Theory of Forms, what might they say in response? You might also simply explain which is more plausible to you any why.

Create your own religion or way of life; be creative! Use the information you have learned in class about religions of the world and construct your own from the ground up. When designing your religion (or way of life), consider the following:What will be the name?
What are the core beliefs and practices?
What rituals will it have, including holidays?
What things will be allowed, and what things will be forbidden?
What does the power structure look like within the religion?
Can people convert to or join the religion?
How will this religion interact with other religions?
For help, check out this link: https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Start-Your-Own-Religion/Links to an external site.
The paper will consist of the following:
Cover Page
4 – 5 page written paper to be completed in MLA or APA format. The font must be double-spaced, 12 pt., Times New Roman, or Arial.
Reference Page includes at least 4 references, one of which can be your textbook.
Due Date: The entire paper, including the cover page, paper, and references, is due by May 9th.
Grading criteria:
Your paper will be evaluated on the following criteria:
Did you include a cover page and reference page?
Did you cover the topic?
Did you follow the proper format?
Does your paper provide an in-depth analysis of your topic?
Did you include the appropriate number of references?

Listen to TWO of these interviews with people representing Christianity: –CHOOSE one from here.
you can choose one from two different groups: e.g. either Catholic and Orthodox or Protestant and Catholic.
After you briefly summarize, also provide a comparison between the two perspectives.
CHRISTIANITY-ORTHODOX CHURCH-https://encountersofwisdom.com/2023/06/12/dr-bradley-nassif-from-the-antiochian-orthodox-church/
INTERVIEW-PROTESTANTISM-https://encountersofwisdom.com/2021/12/07/dr-meic-pearse-professor-of-history-houghton-college-ny/
As you engage the interviews use the ideas about Christianity which you found in the various materials studied such as World’s Religion Book. Page: 357-406. PDF is attached.
In addition, discuss ONE text from the “The world’s wisdom” by Philip Novak book. Page:247-299 PDF is attached below.
write 750 words or more!

Create a research paper on the works of James H. Cone and his contribution to Black Liberation Theology.
Here is short proposal of what the paper should be based upon. –> The discourse surrounding Christian theology has often been criticized for its detachment from the realities of societal injustices, particularly those faced by marginalized communities. James H. Cone’s seminal work on black liberation theology highlights the imperative for theology to actively engage with issues of oppression, racism, and injustice. This proposal aims to explore and promote the integration of black liberation theology within theological discourse, advocating for a shift away from traditional white theology towards a theology that actively addresses societal inequalities and uplifts marginalized voices.
Be aware that Black theology has come a long way since Cone first introduced the idea of a Black liberation theology. Therefore, we want to take a nuanced stance vis-à-vis what Cone calls “white theology”. In your research, make sure to look up contemporary black and white theologians so that your language and ideas are up to date.
I WILL ATTACH THE RUBRIC FOR THE PAPER, PLEASE BE SURE TO GO OVER THE RUBRIC AS YOU TYPE THE PAPER THANKS!