{"id":24796,"date":"2024-05-08T02:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/give-a-brief-historical-contextualization-to-the-belief-system-that-you-have-chosen-identify-a-particular-issue-in-your-chosen-belief-system\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T02:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:28:55","slug":"give-a-brief-historical-contextualization-to-the-belief-system-that-you-have-chosen-identify-a-particular-issue-in-your-chosen-belief-system","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/give-a-brief-historical-contextualization-to-the-belief-system-that-you-have-chosen-identify-a-particular-issue-in-your-chosen-belief-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Give a brief historical contextualization to the belief system that you have chosen. Identify a particular issue in your chosen belief system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">Your final research paper will focus on the analysis of a belief system in the form of a discussion that relates to religion and anthropology.&nbsp; You will research and write about the belief system that intrigues you (but that you yourself do not practice). Your final paper will be written based on the outline that you delineated in your proposal.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Make sure to read the assignment rubric (in detail) before beginning your paper.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\">As part of the<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">research<\/u><\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>that you must carry out for this paper, you need to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Give a brief historical contextualization<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong>to the belief system that you have chosen.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Identify a particular issue in your chosen belief system<\/strong>. The main theme of your paper should be the discussion of a specific issue within the belief system.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>It is not enough to spend most of your paper giving a historical account of the belief system.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>You must use anthropological theory or anthropological ideas to explore issues of the supernatural within your belief system.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">For example<\/u>, what aspects of this belief system fit into categories of ritual and magic? Even in Catholicism, the rituals practiced during mass index a magical aspect of wine turning into blood and bread turning into the body of Christ. Even though today most practitioners of Catholicism do not necessarily believe that this is actual magic, in its origins this ritual spoke to the supernatural possibility of drinking and eating Christ in order to have God within you. Every belief system gives consideration to the supernatural.<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>You can touch on any topic that is of anthropological interest: healing, magic, animism, the function of a belief system, symbolism, etc.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">Explore the challenges and\/or changes<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>that the belief system has experienced in the past, is experiencing in the present, and\/or might experience in the future. Think of possible challenges and how they might fit with the themes discussed in this course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">Your final paper must have:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">An abstract<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">An introduction with a<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">thesis statement<\/u>\u2014in this section you will describe the belief system that you have researched in detail, you will identify a particular<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">issue<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>(of a cultural, social nature)<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">and you will explain how this belief system addresses the supernatural (all belief systems do).&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">An analysis of the main ideas you will present as part writing about your belief system.&nbsp; Here is where you use content of the<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\">literature review<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>that you wrote in your proposal to connect previously written work on your subject matter to your own ideas and analysis of your belief system.&nbsp; For example:&nbsp; Cook (1989) emphasized that many Muslim women outside of sub-saharan Africa posses the right to decide for themselves whether they want to wear a veil in public.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">A discussion section where you will identify the challenges and\/or changes that the belief system is experiencing, and how it fits with the themes discussed in this course.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">A conclusion<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">A references page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">This assignment consists of a minimum of 2,000-words.<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; cursor: auto;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto;\"><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">General guidelines:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; cursor: auto;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">You must incorporate the concepts and theories that we covered in this course, and you will locate your discussion in a particular social and historical context.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">You will use a minimum of<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">five<\/u><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>sources,<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"cursor: auto;\">four<\/u><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>of which must be academic, that is, research on belief systems written in academic publications and\/or peer reviewed journal articles. This is library work and you must make sure to go to our library and ask the librarian to help you using the library\u2019s research tools if you\u2019re unfamiliar with them. Youtube or web videos and\/or images cannot be counted as one of your sources.<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">You will format your paper per APA guidelines.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"cursor: auto;\">You will reference and use in-text citations following APA format. Please make sure that your References page is formatted correctly in APA, following the guidelines located<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"cursor: auto;\"><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your final research paper will focus on the analysis of a belief system in the form of a discussion that relates to religion and anthropology.&nbsp; You will research and write about the belief system that intrigues you (but that you yourself do not practice). 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