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Category > Art & Design Posted 09 Jun 2017 My Price 10.00

Theology paper 3 pages

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Read the article Pastafarians: Real Religion Or Just A Joke? as well as any related links.

please have one page resource page

Question: Is Pastafarianism a religion?

Directions: Using 3 different definitions of “religion” as benchmarks for analysis, write a 3-4pg (900-1200 words) formal essay (including MLA format, intro, thesis, body paragraphs, topic sentences, & conclusion) answering the question.

1. Durkheim’s definition

2. American Academy of Religion

3. Pick One from the Textbook

Regardless of your answer, you must discuss specific ways Pastafarianism does AND does not qualify as a religion in your paper.

Resources:

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

"A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden--beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community… all those who adhere to them."

Émile Durkheim (The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Book 1, Ch. 1)

American Academy of Religion

Religions are…

1. Internally Diverse

2. Dynamic

3. Embedded in Culture

Belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves to it

William James

That which is of "ultimate concern"

Paul Tilich

Textbook - 6 Characteristics

1. Defines relationship between people and “unseen world”

2. Myth and means of communicating with “unseen world”

3. Complex system of ritual, hierarchy, literature and art

4. Concerned with death and/or afterlife

5. Code of moral conduct

6. Community of followers

Resources:

1.http://www.venganza.org/

2.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/13/jedis-and-pastafarians-re_n_925801.html

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