Religious Studies and Comparative Religion
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Read primary texts closely, compare traditions responsibly, and handle the insider and outsider problem in method
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Quizzes
Write multiple-choice items whose stems are short excerpts from primary texts, descriptions of ritual or practice, or method scenarios drawn from the source material. Ask what genre or textual feature the excerpt shows, what a described practice does within its tradition, which comparative category the case fits or resists, or which methodological problem the scenario raises. Cover canon formation and transmission,…
Tests
Weight the assessment 25 percent multiple-choice, 35 percent short answer, 40 percent essay. Short answers of five to eight sentences should ask for a close reading of a supplied passage naming genre, audience and one interpretive crux; or for a comparison of one practice across two traditions that states the shared analytic category and where it fits badly; or for an account of what an insider and an outsider…
Flashcards
One idea per card, and each must carry either a textual anchor or a method consequence. Permitted patterns: a term card whose front is a concept or genre and whose back gives a one-sentence definition, the tradition or scholarly literature it belongs to, and one example from the source material; a contrast card whose front asks how two confusable ideas differ, such as myth in ordinary versus analytic usage,…