There are many new things that I now know about Elvis. I knew that he died from drug overdose, but I found out in class that he actually died on the toilet. I found that to be very interesting and quite embarrassing. Something else that I had never known was that Elvis and Eminem are […]
I had never heard of goddess pilgrimage before learning about it in class. After discussing it, I realized that there are a lot of similarities between it and what we already know about other pilgrimages we have gone over so far this semester. It also helped that we could apply some of the pilgrimage models […]
Last class, we talked about Paganism and related it to the concepts that we have learned so far throughout the semester. The definition in the reading we were assigned described paganism as “..referring to nature religions that are based upon older or Paleopagan religions; concentrating upon an attempt to retain the humanistic, ecological and creative […]
During the past couple of classes, we were introduced to Hindu pilgrimage. We had previously learned that Non-western religions were monistic, nonlinear, and had praxis. Today, we learned more in depth information about Hinduism itself and tied in those concepts to give us a better understanding of how they are incorporated into the different religions. […]