Suggested topics, select any one topic from the list, create a two page response, based on valid academic sources (some online sources/ and textbook are fine). MLA format…Submit this to the Blackboard by the due date (check syllabus). Avoid attachments: paste your content directly into the submit area. Please let me know if you have any questions…
1) Review the changes and challenges religion faces in the modern world, then review the practices and beliefs of a religion of your choice. Now imagine you have gone through some kind of time travel and returned five hundred or a thousand years from now. How is the religion, if it still exists, being practiced and conceived?
2) Consider the emergence of Prosperity Gospel/Wealth Gospel/Seed Faith; Is there a moral implication of this movement? Is this interpretation of Protestant Christian views truly Biblical, or a result contemporary greed and influence? What might be the impact of charitable giving (to the poor) as a result? Support your argument with valid, academic resources…
3) Discuss the emergence of religious movements as subject-matter for reality television shows. How might this type of exposure affect the view of others’ observations and understanding of these belief systems?
4) Explore the Catholic stance on social media; trace the origin and view of the internet and social media as a platform for Catholic outreach. (hint…Vatican II and Pontifical publications are the sources on this one…).
5) Explore the history of one of the Chinese arts and how it was influenced by either Daoism or Confucianism.
