Discuss a historical event that encapsulates our conversation this semester on religion and violence: say, the first crusade, or a terrorist attack, critically analyze the degree to which one can say the event was religious or not.
• Select a movie, TV show, or magazine article that depicts one of the religions we have covered throughout the semester, and critically analyze the presentation. The cultural im- age you select should be powerful enough to generalize about its impact on the broader cultural understanding of adherents to that religious tradition; provocative enough to … Read more