RELI 448N Week 1 - Assignment, Perspectives Essay

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Required Resources Read/review the following resources for this activity: Textbook: Chapter 1 Lesson Minimum of 2 scholarly sources (1 for the etic view, and 1 for the emic view. Your source for the emic view should come from someone who writes with authority in the religion you chose. For example, if you chose Buddhism, you could use a quotation from His Holiness, Dalai Lama XIV). Instructions Make sure to read the lesson this week to learn about etic and emic perspectives so that you can appropriately apply them in this assignment. In an essay, apply the etic and emic perspectives to your own religion or a religion with which you have some familiarity. How would your tradition be described etically? Remember that this is an outsider™s perspective of what can be measured, studied, or observed. How would it be described emically? Remember that this is an insider™s perspective as seen by practitioners Make sure that you are using at least one source for each approach and include citations from the assigned readings and additional scholarly sources. Click on the following link to view an example: Link: Shinto Example Etic Shintoism is the indigenous religious practice of the Japanese archipelago. Having no specific founder, the practices and belief of Shinto (the Way of the Gods) can be traced to Japanese pre-history (Molloy, 2018, p. 246). As an animistic tradition, 1Shinto is focused on the veneration of nature spirits, the worship of ancestors, and observance of seasonal rites. What can be called the primitive form of Shinto was strongly related to the formation of an agricultural culture Shinto developed from the worship (matsuri) 2performed in relation to the agricultural activities engaged in by those communal societies (Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, 1985, p. 147). Though there are no universally held doctrines in Shintoism, there are some unifying practices and texts. The Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon Shoki (Chronicles of Japan) both relate the myths of Japan creation and the subsequent emergence of culture and society (Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, 1985, p. 1-11). 3These texts provide the foundation for the nature-based religions that would eventually become Shintoism, including some of the 3earliest recorded prayers to the kami (gods, or nature spirits), called norito (Molloy, 2018, p.253).

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