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• REL 134 Entire Course

• REL 134 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 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

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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 Knowledge Check

• REL 134 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 1.
• The prophetic orientation in religion emphasizes
• 2.
• A mystical orientation in religion is
  characterized by
• 3.

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• 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?

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• REL 134 Week 1 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 1 Individual Assignment Studying
  Religion

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• What are some difficulties in trying to define
  religion and religious beliefs?

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• 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?

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• REL 134 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

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• How do religious traditions view the world and
  humanitys place in it? How do religious
  traditions respond to issues of gender?

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• From the reading, what are the basic elements of
  religion?

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• REL 134 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 2 DQ 3 (Course)

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• What influence has Judaism had on the Western
  world? Provide examples of this influence?

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• 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 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment

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• What forms of devotion and spirituality are
  common in Hinduism?

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• Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  that includes the following
• A summary of the life and importance of one key
  person in Jewish history

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• REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment

• REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment

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• 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

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• Prepare a 700-1050 Words Paper on Jewish holy
  days
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• Rosh Hashanah
• Yom Kippur
• Sukkot

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• REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment

• REL 134 Week 2 Individual Assignment

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• Complete the Material Common Holy Days in Jewish
  Religious Traditions

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• Complete the Material Common Holy Days in Jewish
  Religious Traditions.

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• REL 134 Week 2 Knowledge Check

• REL 134 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 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

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• 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 2 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

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• How does Christianity exhibit a pluralistic
  character? Compare Christian practices and
  sacraments among its many different denominations

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• 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 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 3 Individual Assignment

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• 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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• Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  comparing two of the following branches of
  Christianity
• Catholic
• Orthodox
• Protestant
• Pentecostal

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• REL 134 Week 3 Individual Assignment

• REL 134 Week 3 Knowledge Check

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• Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint co
  mparing two of the following branches of
  Christianity
• Catholic
• Orthodox

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• 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

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• REL 134 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

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• 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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• What was the influence of Islam on the arts and
  sciences? How does the past influence compare
  with todays influence?

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• REL 134 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP Course)

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• What elements of Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto
  are characteristic of Eastern religious
  traditions studied in this course?

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• How does Confucianism differ with Taoism?

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• REL 134 Week 4 Individual Assignment Islam
  Worksheet

• REL 134 Week 4 Individual Assignment

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• Complete the University of Phoenix Material
  Islam Worksheet available on the student website.

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• Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft PowerPoint
  that includes the following
• Brief summary of the history of Islam
• Explain the importance of these elements for
  Muslims

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• REL 134 Week 4 Individual Assignment

• REL 134 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course)

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• 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

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• 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 DQ 2 (UOP Course)

• REL 134 Week 5 Individual Assignment Modern

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• What threats do the Western religious traditions
  face in a more secular world? How are they coping
  with these threats?

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• 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?

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• REL 134 Week 5 Knowledge Check

• REL 134 Week4 Knowledge Check

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• 1.The founder of which of these Christian
  denominations was female?
• 2.One sign of a religious cult is that the
  movement

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• 1.Islam particularly stresses
• 2.Islam literally means
• 3.Observant Muslims do not allow

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