World History Religions Paper Many Problems In Our World, Past

World History Religions Paper Many problems in our world, past and present, have been caused by religious disagreements/conflicts. We have seen many conflicts recently between the Arab and Christian worlds, the Irish Catholics and Protestants fight to the death through terrorist attacks, and similar situations are seen between Israel and Palestine. Because religion is such an important topic throughout the world and throughout history, your assignment is to delve into some of the different major religions and present about one of them to the class. You will write a 4-6 page paper (no less than 4, no more than 6) answering the following questions: 1. Who is the supreme Deity in your religion of study? Are there any other key religious people in this faith? 2. Does this faith persecute people of different faiths, either currently or historically? 3. How do they evangelize new people? 4. What do you feel are the most interesting and/or intimidating parts of this faith? 5. Choose one other religion from the list below and do a short compare and contrast of the two religions. 6. Is there any other interesting information that you feel needs to be included? You will also need to create a 10 slide PowerPoint presentation about your topic, including pictures, and giving an overview of the information you put in your paper. Your paper must be in Times New Roman font, size 12, double spaced, and have standard margin sizes. Topics we will choose from – We will be drawing topics. You will have some in class time to work on this paper; you will most likely need to find time outside of class to finish the paper and presentation.

Topics: Mormons

Hindu

Judaism

Buddhism

Islam

Catholicism

See the rubric for grading procedure.

Protestantism Paganism Far Eastern Religions

Religions Rubric – turn this in with your final product _____ Met page requirements 5 _____ Met formatting requirements, proper grammar, spelling, etc. 10 _____ 10 Slide PowerPoint presentation; information is accurate, visually pleasing, etc. – Print slides 25 _____ Content of the paper – All questions are answered thoroughly, information is accurate 50 _____ Group work – group worked well, no one person did everything, shared responsibility 10

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