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1 page long,most important of all asking meaningful questions and providing thoughtful responses on how these ideas can be seen today or how they relate overall to everyday life , these are the instructions;
“That said, this journal is intended to be a place for both thoughts and feelings, not just feelings. A good journal entry will contain one or more of the following:
1) Further questions raised by ideas and readings from the course.
2) Attempts (perhaps partial) to answer these questions.
3) An engagement with a piece of art or a popular culture artifact that the student feels has a kind of religious significance or that can be related to an idea mentioned in class/readings.
1) Two of your entries must engage with a news article related to religion”
These are the readings,(I will provide all readings in pictures and files just in case anything is not readily available online)
#1—E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture (Selections)
#2-Frazer,“Animism and Magic: E. B. Tylor and J. G. Frazer” (pp. 18-31—i.e. up to the beginning of the section on Frazer)(doctrine of survivals
#4-William James- The Varieties of Religious Experience (pp. 435-453, on Bb)
#6-Durkheim- Read Pals, “Society as Sacred: Émile Durkheim” (pp. 85-95—i.e. up to “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life”)
#7-Weber- Read Pals, “A Source of Social Action: Max Weber” (pp. 149-165—i.e. up to “Sociology of Religion”)
#8-Eliade- Read Pals, “The Reality of the Sacred: Mircea Eliade” (pp. 193-213—i.e. up to “History and Sacred Time”)
#9-Geertz- Read Pals, “Religion as Cultural System: Clifford Geertz” (pp. 260-276—i.e. up to “Islam Observed”)
#10-Livingston- Read Livingston, “Sacred Symbol Myth and Doctrine,” pp. 53-71
(I skipped the numbers I already did, just in case of first glance confusion)