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REL 134 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Entire Course
  REL 13s4 Week 1 Individual Assignment Studying
Religion REL 134 Week 1 Knowledge Check REL 134
Week 1 DQ 1 REL 134 Week 1 DQ 2 REL 134 Week 1 DQ
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  Why should we study religions?  What are some
of the methods used to study religions? What are
some of the problems and questions sometimes
associated with them?
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REL 134 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  How do religious traditions view the world and
humanitys place in it? How do religious
traditions respond to issues of gender?
  From the reading, what are the basic elements
of religion?
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REL 134 Week 1 Individual Assignment Studying
Religion
REL 134 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
  What are some difficulties in trying to define
religion and religious beliefs?
Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper that addresses
the following topics What is essential (in the
practices and beliefs) for a tradition to be
called a religion? Illustrate your points by
referring to the commonalities of the three
Western religions. How do different fields of
study approach religion? What are some critical
issues in the academic study of religion?
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REL 134 Week 1 Knowledge Check
REL 134 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
  Choose a key moment in the Biblical history of
the Jewish people. How does this moment relate to
the main religious beliefs of the Jewish faith?
1. The prophetic orientation in religion
emphasizes 2. A mystical orientation in religion
is characterized by 3. A sacramental orientation
in religion is characterized by
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REL 134 Week 2 DQ 3 (Course)
REL 134 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  What influence has Judaism had on the Western
world? Provide examples of this influence?
    What do the terms brahman, atman, maya,
karma, samsara, and moksha mean? How do these
terms relate to each other in Hindu teachings?
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REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment History of
Judaism
REL 134 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
  Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that includes
the following A summary of the life and
importance of one key person in Jewish history An
explanation of one key event in the history of
Judaism that is connected to that person A
description of any rituals, symbols, or sacred
texts in Judaism associated with this event or
person Format your paper consistent with APA
guidelines.
  What forms of devotion and spirituality are
common in Hinduism?
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REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment Jewish Holy
Days Worksheet
REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment Jewish Holy
Days Paper (UOP Course)
  Complete the Material Common Holy Days in
Jewish Religious Traditions.
  Prepare a 700-1050 Words Paper on Jewish holy
days   Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Sukkot Hanukkah P
urim
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REL 134 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 2 Knowledge Check
1. The Jewish view of God is best expressed
as 2. The Jewish Day of Atonement, the most
sacred day of the Jewish year, is 3. The Jewish
Sabbath is kept from
  How was the New Testament formed and recognized
in the early Church? What issues were critical to
including a writing in the New Testament?
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REL 134 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  How does Christianity exhibit a pluralistic
character? Compare Christian practices and
sacraments among its many different denominations
    Do you identify Buddhism as a religion? Why
or why not? How does it contrast with other
traditional religions?
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REL 134 Week 3 Individual Assignment Christianity
Presentation
REL 134 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
  What are the Three Jewels of Buddhism? What are
the Four Noble Truths? What are the steps of the
Noble Eightfold Path? How do these teachings
inform the practice of Buddhism?
  Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint 
comparing two of the following branches of
Christianity Catholic Orthodox Protestant Penteco
stal Nontraditional/Alternative
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REL 134 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 3 Knowledge Check
  1.In Jesus time, what power controlled
Israel? 2.The Protestant Reformation was started
by 3.Which of these books is found in the New
Testament? 4.Perhaps the most important ritual of
Christianity is a sign of entry into the church,
or 5.Easter, as a celebration of the
resurrection, is associated with the color 6.The
major Christian rituals, such as baptism and
Eucharist, are often called 7.The view that the
end of the world is near is called 8.Literally,
gospel means 9.In 1054, what happened between
the Eastern and Western Church? 10.Orthodox
literally means  
  Islam means, at its root, surrender. How does
Islamic belief and practice reflect the
importance of surrendering to Allah?  How is this
idea expressed in similar ways in Judaism and
Christianity?
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REL 134 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  What was the influence of Islam on the arts and
sciences? How does the past influence compare
with todays influence?
  What elements of Taoism, Confucianism, and
Shinto are characteristic of Eastern religious
traditions studied in this course?
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REL 134 Week 4 Individual Assignment Islam
Worksheet (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
  How does Confucianism differ with Taoism?
  Complete the University of Phoenix Material
Islam Worksheet available on the student website.
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REL 134 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
REL 134 Week 4 Individual Assignment
Understanding Islam
  Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that includes
the following Brief summary of the history of
Islam Explain the importance of these elements
for Muslims Qur'an Five Pillars Ramadan Describe
significant differences and similarities in how
the branches of Islam (Sunni, Shiite, and Sufi)
practice their traditions. Format your paper
consistent with APA guidelines.
  How has the idea of the sacred or holy created
conflict between these three Western religious
traditions?
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REL 134 Week 5 Individual Assignment Modern
Challenges
REL 134 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
  What threats do the Western religious
traditions face in a more secular world? How are
they coping with these threats?
  Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that
addresses the following questions What are
common characteristics the assigned religion
shares with the others? How is this religion
responding to challenges in the modern
world? What has changed about the roles of women
in the religion over time? Cite at least five
references in addition to the textbook. Format you
r paper consistent with APA guidelines. Create a
1-page handout to summarize the key ideas of your
paper. This can be a bulleted list with a short
summary of your findings.  
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REL 134 Week4 Knowledge Check
REL 134 Week 5 Knowledge Check
  1.The founder of which of these Christian
denominations was female? 2.One sign of a
religious cult is that the movement 3.The word
pagan comes from pagus, a Latin word that
means 4.Literally, Theosophy means 5.Bahai
emerged from 6.In Scientology, the state of full
mental liberation is called 7.The desire for a
separation of church and state came about as the
result of 8.The view of religion as an outdated
method for providing solutions to lifes problems
was espoused by 9.Living and thinking without
reference to a religion is called
  1.Islam particularly stresses 2.Islam literally
means 3.Observant Muslims do not allow 4.Muslims
trace themselves back ultimately to what great
patriarch? 5.A remembrance of what Muhammad said
or did is called 6.Regarding the afterlife,
Muslims believe 7.Muhammad was born and raised
in 8.Which country had a large Muslim population
for almost 800 years? 9.The Islamic month of
fasting is called 10.The chanter who calls people
to prayer is called  
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