This document provides guidance for choosing a topic for a final paper on religion. It suggests choosing a specific religious tradition from a list of options and focusing on a theme like sacred texts, historical development, concepts of the divine, or ways of salvation. It also offers broad categories like religion and politics, environment, gender, or science that topics could relate to. The student must meet with the professor to get the topic approved and will receive help with developing a thesis statement and outline.
Final Paper – Possible topics You propose the topic, b.docx
1. Final Paper – Possible topics
You propose the topic, but you must meet with me to clear it. I
help you with your thesis
statement and outline. Use your preferred themes learned in
class and apply it to a specific
tradition or two traditions if you prefer to write a comparative
paper.
Choose a religion and elaborate on one of the following topics:
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Taoism
- Confucianism
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Indigenous traditions
2. - Other
- Sacred societies
- Concept of the Divine
- View of the Human Problem/nature
- Justification for Evil (Theodicy)
- Ways of salvation
- Rituals, symbols, myths.
- Historical Development
- Sacred Scriptures
You can also relate your topic to your interests or major. The
following are broad categories,
make sure to propose a narrow topic within it.
- Religion and political movements
- religion and environmentalism
- Religion, gender and sexuality
- religion and the problem of evil, war / violence
- religion and science
3. - religion and pop culture / fashion / food
- religion and education
- Religion and biology/medicine
- Religion and technology
- Religion and economics
- Religion and secularization
- Religion and Justice
- Religion and afterlife/salvation
- Religion and psychology