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REL 133 Entire Course
REL 133 Week 1 Individual Assignment Elements of
Religious Traditions Paper REL 133 Week 1 DQ
1 REL 133 Week 1 DQ 2 REL 133 Week 1 DQ 3 REL 133
Week 1 DQ 4 REL 133 Week 2 Individual Assignment
Four Yogic Paths and Jainism Worksheet REL 133
Week 2 DQ 1 REL 133 Week 2 DQ 2 REL 133 Week 2 DQ
3 REL 133 Week 2 DQ 4 REL 133 Week 3 Individual
Assignment Buddhism Worksheet REL 133 Week 3
Learning Team Assignment Buddhism Presentation
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REL 133 Week 1 DQ 1
How do you define the word religion? What
elements are commonly associated with religious
traditions?
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REL 133 Week 1 DQ 2
How do you define the word sacred? How do
religious traditions orient their conception and
location of the sacred?
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REL 133 Week 1 DQ 3
From the reading, what are the basic elements of
religion?
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REL 133 Week 1 DQ 4
What are some difficulties in trying to define
religion and religious beliefs?
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 REL 133 Week 1 Individual Assignment Elements of
Religious Traditions Paper
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that does the
following   Describes these basic components of
religious traditions and their relationship to
the sacred   What a religious tradition saysits
teachings, texts, doctrine, stories, myths, and
others What a religious tradition doesworship,
prayer, pilgrimage, ritual, and so forth How a
religious tradition organizesleadership,
relationships among members, and so forth
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REL 133 Week 1 Quiz
1.A sacramental orientation in religion is
characterized by 2.The transmission of indigenous
religions is made more difficult by the fact that
teachings are often conveyed in ways that
are 3.Compared with indigenous religions, todays
dominant religions are 4.Animism holds that 5.A
libation involves 6.Sacred time in indigenous
religions is 7.Literally, the word religion
means 8.Belief in many gods is called 9.Belief in
one God is called 10.Literally, theology means  
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REL 133 Week 2 DQ 1
What are the Vedas? How do the Upanishads differ
from the Vedas?
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REL 133 Week 2 DQ 2
What are the stages of life in traditional Hindu
teaching? Imagine you are a practicing Hindu.
Which life stage are you in? How does it affect
your daily activities?
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REL 133 Week 2 DQ 3
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 133 Week 2 DQ 4
What forms of devotion and spirituality are
common in Hinduism?
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REL 133 Week 2 Individual Assignment Four Yogic
Paths and Jainism Worksheet
Resource Understanding Religious Beliefs and
Traditions I simulation Complete the University
Material Four Yogic Paths and Jainism Worksheet
located on the student website.
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REL 133 Week 2 Quiz
1.Bhakti means 2.The religious practice of
ordinary Hindus is primarily 3.A guru is a 4.The
word that means liberation is 5.The word Vedas
is related to the English word 6.The oldest and
most important of the Vedas is 7.Jainism places
great emphasis on 8.The Jain worldview holds that
a Creator 9.A Sikh temple is called a 10.The
founder of Sikhism 
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REL 133 Week 3 DQ 1  
 What were the key experiences in the life of the
Buddha? Why were those experiences important?  
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REL 133 Week 3 DQ 2
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?
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REL 133 Week 3 DQ 3
Do you identify Buddhism as a religion? Why or
why not? How does it contrast with other
traditional religions?
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REL 133 Week 3 Individual Assignment Buddhism
Worksheet
Complete the University Material Buddhism
Worksheet located on the student website.
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 REL 133 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Buddhism
Presentation
Resource Buddhism Worksheet Consult the
facilitator regarding the assignment of one of
the following Buddhist traditions Theravada
Buddhism Mahayana Buddhism Vajrayana Buddhism
Zen Buddhismas a special school of Mahayana
Buddhism Prepare a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft
PowerPoint presentation on the assigned Buddhist
tradition that does the following Describes how
significant moments in the Buddhas life informed
the assigned tradition
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REL 133 Week 3 Quiz
1.Siddhartha Gautama is the name of 2.The Buddha
lived about this time. 3.The Buddha was
particularly troubled by the problem of 4.Vinaya
refers to 5.The basic outlook on life, formulated
by Buddhism, is contained in 6.Regarding the
common belief in a permanent soul, the Buddha
seems to have taught that 7.Nirvana seems to come
from a word that means 8.A major goal of Buddhism
is 9.The dissatisfaction and sorrow that life
brings is called 10.Buddhism focuses especially 
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REL 133 Week 4 DQ 1
 What are the basic elements of early Chinese
belief? How did these elements influence later
beliefs?
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REL 133 Week 4 DQ 2
How would you describe the two main, early
teachers of Daoism Laozi (Lao Tzu) and Zhuangzi
(Chauang Tzu)? How did each influence the
development of Daoism?  
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REL 133 Week 4 DQ 3
 What elements of Taoism, Confucianism, and
Shinto are characteristic of Eastern religious
traditions studied in this course?
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REL 133 Week 4 DQ 4
How does Confucianism differ with Taoism?
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REL 133 Week 4 Individual Assignment Confucianism
Paper
Write a 150- to 300-word essay on Confucianism
that addresses the following topics What are the
Five Great Relationships? How is the Ideal Person
to act? (You must refer to the concepts of ren,
li, shu, xiao, and wen.) What is the role of
Confucianism in Chinese culture and society
today? Cite at least three (3) references in
addition to the textbook. Format your paper
consistent with APA guidelines.
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REL 133 Week 4 Individual Assignment Daoism
Worksheet
Complete the Material Daoism Worksheet. Cite
resources used. 
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REL 133 Week 4 Individual Assignment Daoism,
Confucianism, and Shinto
Part 1 Reflections on the Daodejing (Tao Te
Ching) Worksheet Complete the University
Material Reflections on the Daodejing (Tao Te
Ching) Worksheet located on the student website.
  Part 2 The Ideal Person Write a 350- to
700-word essay that describes the ideal person
according to Confucius. Include the concepts of
ren, li, shu, xiao, and wen. Format your essay
consistent with APA guidelines.
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REL 133 Week 4 Individual Assignment Shinto
Illustration
Access the Shinto Art Creator tool. Write a 350-
to 700-word summary of Shinto practices that
still exist today. Create an illustration
representative of the Shinto religion, based on
the beliefs of openness, use of nature, and
deliberate simplicity. Be prepared to
discuss. Format your paper and any additional
materials consistent with APA guidelines. Cite res
ources used.  No need to cite the Shinto Art
creator.   
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REL 133 Week 4 Quiz
1.The notion of wuwei is 2.Literally, Daodejing
means 3.Applying the notion of yin and yang, we
could say that Daoism shows a special love
for 4.The most important image to be found in the
Daodejing, the image that best expresses its
ideals, is 5.Divination refers
to 6.Confucianism has been especially concerned
about relationships 7.In their view of human
nature, the Confucianists 8.In Shinto, white is
often used because 9.The torii is 10.According to
Shinto beliefs, human beings  
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REL 133 Week 5 DQ 1
What are the common characteristics of the
Eastern religious traditions?
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REL 133 Week 5 DQ 2
What are the effects of science on religion in
the modern world? Do religions have an effect on
science? Explain how.
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REL 133 Week 5 Individual Assignment Common
Elements of Eastern Religious Traditions
Choose three of the Eastern religious traditions
studied in the course. Complete the University
Material Common Elements of Eastern Religious
Traditions template located on the student
website.
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REL 133 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment
Contemporary Issues in Eastern Religions Paper
and Presentation
Consult the facilitator regarding the assignment
of one of the Eastern religious traditions
studied in the course. Field Exercise Learning
Team members visit a sacred site of the specific
religion. While all do not need to visit the
same location at the same time, each member is
required to contribute their own experience in
the Final Paper and Presentation Write a 2,100-
to 2,450-word paper about the contemporary issues
facing the assigned Eastern religious tradition
in which you Discuss the common characteristics
the assigned religion shares with the
others. Analyze the interactions between the
modern world and the assigned religion. Provide
examples of how these interactions influence both
the assigned religion and the modern world.
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REL 133 Week 5 Quiz
1.Gender-neutral prayers 2.The view of religion
as an outdated method for providing solutions to
lifes problems was espoused by 3.Living and
thinking without reference to a religion is
called 7.T. H. Huxley, an English biologist,
created what term? 4.The environmentalism
movement is least strong in what
regard? 5.Applied science is 6.The first World
Parliament of Religions was held in 1893 in
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