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Read: Bishop, pg 28-60 After completing the readings, please write a mini-essay that addresses the following: For Foucault, the role of medicine has developed over the course of history. He maintains that the dead body becomes the normative body and death becomes the fundamental ground of medical knowledge. What do […]

Your task is to create an argument for both sides of a debate. You are to create “notecards” that you would use in your debate. You should have three “for” notecards and three “against” notecards. Each notecard should have one statement that supports one side of the argument along with […]

Pretend you are part of a team writing a guide book to religion in Dublin. Chose a religion that you believe should be included in the book. You must pretend that you have visited and researched a place that is connected to your chosen religion (eg: a church). Guidelines for […]

Must read at least 2 of these sources. Sources: Veyne, P. Did the Greeks believe in their myths? An essay on the constitutive imagination (Chicago: 1988). Calame C. “Greek Myth and Greek Religion”, in R. D. Woodard (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), 259-285. Bremmer J. […]

Choose a contemporary “secular” phenomenon and discuss the extent to which it can be construed as religious in some way. Examples of “contemporary phenomena” could include fan organizations, band groupies, cults, yoga, “raves,” ritual use of psychotropic drugs, Alcoholics Anonymous, “mindfulness,” political parties or ideologies, nationalism, capitalism, technology, fraternities or […]

Book Review Instructions You will write a 1,000-word book review of The King Jesus Gospel by Scot McKnight. This review will contain a short summary of the book, a personal response, a discussion of the book’s strengths and weaknesses and an application of the book in your life. You must […]