Comparative Religion
Religious Studies 302
Saint Martin's College
Focus Paper Assignment


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Choose one of the readings from the sections of Roger Eastman, The Ways of Religion, dealing with religions of the East and write an essay in which you deal with the following two questions:

1.       How does this reading reflect the features of the religion to which it is related?

2.       How does it speak to a more universal audience (or, what does it have to say that is of more
    universal significance)?

I’m interested in having you get at two dimensions of religion in this paper.  Religions are specific and different from each other, and yet they also tend to provide answers to needs and issues that are fundamentally human and therefore transcend any single religion or culture.

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