North Charleston: CreaterSpace, 2013. The question you will be answering in this essay is: Is this book an authentic and cogent expression of (Religion X)?You should answer this question as you would any interpretive essay question. In your first paragraph you should include an evaluative thesis. This can be phrased in different ways, but it should ultimately be a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d statement (or yes and no- see my explanation below) in answer to the question. In the body of the essay you should then go on to prove your thesis, using evidence drawn from our PRIMARY SOURCES (found in the two anthologies, Sources of Indian Tradition and Sources of Chinese Tradition). You may cite the book to which you are responding as many times as you like (there should be a number of these citations, as you will have to specify where the content to which you are responding can be found in the book), but your essay must include at least THREE citations to our PRIMARY SOURCES drawn from the anthologies.This essay is basically a test of how much you have learned about the religious traditions we are studying in class. By asking you whether the book is an \u201cauthentic\u201d expression of the religious tradition it represents, I am calling on you to compare it to the earlier, foundational scriptures we have read for class and demonstrating whether the book is true to the ideas and practices the earlier sources outline or is deviating from\/distorting those teachings in some way. Note that this can be a very complicated question. Since all of the religious traditions we are studying are very complicated, the author you are responding to may agree with SOME of the early scriptures we read but not others (perhaps because those scriptures themselves disagree with one another). By laying out these relationships in your essay, you have a chance to show that you possess a sophisticated and nuanced grasp of the history, doctrines, and practices of the religious tradition in question.The question of whether the book is a cogent (i.e. persuasive) expression of the religious tradition to which the author belongs is trickier, and you may choose to avoid or de-emphasize it. Whether or not a religious text is persuasive can be a highly subjective question- much depends on one\u2019s own beliefs and point of view. I am interested to know your opinion in these regards, and you should feel free to include your own personal responses to the message of the book in question, but please be aware that I cannot grade you on this kind of response. Your writing on this aspect of the question will only contribute to your grade to the extent that you deal with FALSIFIABLE assertions. If you can show, on the basis of evidence, that the author makes basic mistakes of logic, contradicts himself or herself, misrepresents or misinterprets history, or obviously misinterprets the scriptures and practices of the religion itself, those are all claims that I can assess by looking at your sources and interpretations. Your evidence for this type of argument might be drawn from either the book to which you are responding OR the sources from our anthologies (or both), but please keep in mind that only citations of the source anthologies will count toward the minimum three that your essay must contain to fulfill the assignment. Finally, keep in mind that the relationship between the book\u2019s \u201cauthenticity\u201d and \u201ccogency\u201d can be complicated. You might decide, for example that the book is a very authentic expression of the religious tradition it represents, but not a very cogent one, because other writers in the tradition have had better ideas or more effective practices. Conversely, you could decide that the book is not very authentic, but that the ways in which the writer has deviated from orthodoxy make its doctrine stronger or its teachings more profound. You are free to respond to the book many different ways, as long as you provide clear, correctly cited evidence and logical analysis in support of your arguments.Citations for this paper should use the same short format as for exams and the interpretive essay: (text, page #). For example: Shunryu Suzuki begins his discussion of Zen by describing \u201czazen posture (Zen Mind, Beginner\u2019s Mind, page 7).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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