create-your-own-japanese-religion-4

Due Date: April 4th.
Create your own Japanese Religion. Create it’s back story, rituals, worldview, and myths. It should be tied to at least 3 themes we encountered in class and should connect to in-class and/or outside readings. It should include an extended critical reflection on the question of religion in Japan. Critical reflection means thinking about the significance of discourses and about what they might tell us about Japanese religions and culture more generally. In other words, critical reflection asks, and attempts to answer, the “so-what question.”
Students will be provided with more details and suggestions in tutorial.
Papers must be typed and double spaced. They should be 1500 words.

FINAL PAPER RUBRIC:

Introduction (5)

Argument (15)

Clear and concise overview of your religion – origin story, founder, texts, rituals, deities, worldview, etc.
Clear and concise statement about how your religion relates to key themes in the course and what it says about Japanese religions/culture/modern history/contemporary societal issues.
Offering specific and clear examples to support the case you made in the above point.
Using your sources effectively

Engages in “so what” question rather than just descriptive (10)

What are the broader themes in Japanese religions you are engaging?
For example: the relationship between Buddhas and kami, the religion/tradition issue, mushūkyō, embodied religion, etc.

Grammar/proofreading/structure (7)

Logical structure that follows introduction
Paragraphs make sense, individual paragraphs stick to one individual theme/point, flow naturally
Include Title, name, student number
Number all pages
Do not provide a cover page
Justify only to the left margin

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