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. […]
The first half of this semester, we learned a lot about western religions. I think that those were the religions that most of us were somewhat familiar with at least. This week in class, we began learning about non-western religions and to be honest I had no idea what any of those were before our […]
This week in class, we learned a lot about Islamic religion. I honestly didn’t really know anything about this religion before discussing it in class. We basically went over the misconceptions that society has toward Muslims, and discussed why they were not true. I know that I have heard many stereotypes about Muslims in general, […]
During class, we are discussing a few of the many definitions of pilgrimage. The definition that I understood the most was that pilgrimage is social re-structuring. The reason that I understood this definition the best was because of the Turner Model. I found this model very helpful in my understanding of a pilgrimage and what […]
This week, I decided to reflect on the book, The Unlikely Disciple, and talk about how it relates to something that I went through in my life. The whole purpose of this book was that this college student named Kevin wanted to study abroad at Liberty, an evangelical college, instead of traveling to another country […]
This week during religion, we focused on the concept of why people go on pilgrimage. After reading The Sacred and The Profane, I really understood the whole idea of pilgrimage a lot better. After class discussion, we came to the conclusion that people pilgrimage because it makes them feel more order and creates a sense […]
The first few readings that we have discussed so far in class were about the theorists Frazer, Durkheim, Freud, and Marx. Those readings gave us insight on how each of the four theorists viewed religion and how religion reflects us as people. Although I did not really agree with a lot of the things that […]