Essay on ulteriour religionFinal EssayYour final essay is due by 9:00am, Monday, April 28, 2014. Please submit your essay by emailto: jbiles@saic.edu. Please be sure that your essay is in Word format. Documents should be titledafter the following manner: LastName.FinalEssay.doc.Essays should be three to 8-10 pages in length, double-spaced, with reasonable font and margins(e.g., Times, 12 pt., 1-inch margins). Do not plagiarize; be sure to provide proper citations inyour footnotes (this means including the author, title, and page number of the reference). In thisessay, you must engage course readings explicitly and in depth, supporting your main points withquotes from the relevant text/s. In addition, you will want to draw upon at least two sourcesbeyond those we have covered in class. ??.?.InstructionsDavid Chidester claims that religion is an area of human activity marked by the concerns of thetranscendent, the sacred, the ultimate?concerns that enable people to experiment with what itmeans to be human (Authentic Fakes, p. 1). For your final essay, you will write an essay inwhich you investigate how a form of ulterior religion functions as an experiment with what itmeans to be human.Please be sure to respond to ALL of the following:1. Early in your essay, you will want to articulate a clear definition of religion. You are welcometo draw upon definitions of thinkers we have studied in class?e.g., Durkheim, Otto, Eliade,Chidester, Ward, Bataille, Geertz?in formulating your own definition. Please keep in mind thatyour definition should be sufficiently capacious to include a variety of phenomena that you wouldwant to treat as religious, but narrow enough to do interesting theoretical work.2. Employing your definition of religion, develop an essay in which you focus upon an ostensiblysecular phenomenon, revealing the religious dimensions of that phenomenon. In doing so, youwill want to be clear and specific about the precise ways in which you see the case you focusupon to constitute an experiment with what it means to be human. You may wish to reviewChidester?s work for inspiration in crafting your own essay. Be sure to analyze your case withcare, offering ample detail, evidence, and logical argumentation to support your points.3. You should conclude your essay with a set of theoretical reflections on the question of whatcounts as religion, and what you take to be the importance of raising and responding to thisquestion as a student of religion. What is at stake in delineating religion? What is the importanceof querying into religion, and of discerning ulterior forms of religion? ??.?.
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