E300

You will be asked to write two essays (5-7 pages, double-spaced with standard typeface, font size, and margins) each on one of the religious “tools” (i.e., object, place, text/book, image, music, ritual, taste, or popular culture) that we are studying. They will be due by email at noon on the Saturday after we have finished discussing the particular “tool” that you are choosing to write about. In these papers you are asked to discuss a specific “item” that has (however loosely defined) “religious” significance for you. In the first part of the paper, you should do a bit of research about the historical significance of the “tool.” What has it meant to past communities and individuals? What were the circumstances of its creation? Was it originally meant to have a different purpose or significance than it currently has for you? In the second part of the paper, discuss how this “tool” came to have the significance that it has for you. When and how did you first learn about it? How does it help you interact with the world, yourself, and others?What present, past, and future relationships might it make possible and/or prevent? How does it contribute to your identity? What does it help you communicate about yourself to others? What does it help you understand about the world around you? What might it obscure or prevent you from seeing about the world around you?

So the paper is two parts, for the first half(about two and a half pages) you will do some research about how popular culture relates to religion. Then in the second half just write about pop culture is significant to you.

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During the early twentieth century, the expansion of the electronic media took the world by surprise as it expanded the scope of the religious representations through film, television, radio and the internet. In the United States, the first live radio streaming in 1906 consisted of a religious program that had bible readings and devotional music (Chidester, N.d). The culture was actively involved in the representation of the religious themes. The American popular culture ..

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