act of scholarship

The research paper is an act of scholarship which requires that you utilize a minimum of three scholarly reputable and academically sound sources. You may choose any topic, phenomenon, person, subject, or category pertinent to the study of religion and take a social-scientific, scholarly approach. It should be around five pages long and include citations of your sources and a bibliography.

Format
The research paper is an act of scholarship. It should cohere generally with the MLA style sheet, or any other such accepted format. This means that you must document your sources with either footnotes, endnotes, or parentheticals, and, include a comprehensive bibliography. Length for this paper is really a very relative matter but it is difficult to conceive of a decent treatment in less than four or five pages.
General Criteria
I am basically looking for two things in your research paper: Research and Thought. I want to see well-organized, well-researched, and well-presented papers on topics that are personally engaging for you. Ideally, you will take this opportunity to explore areas that you have always wanted to discover, answer questions that have always plagued you, raise questions that have always been begging to be posed , plunge into worlds that have seemed either esoteric or mysterious, and/or to uncover new dimensions of religiosity that have hitherto seemed camouflaged by custom and culture. Were I writing such a paper, I might explore such topics as:

“The Hidden Religious Significance of American Baseball,”
“The Super-Bowl and Trials by Combat as the Will of God,”
“Religious Values in War and Peace,”
“The New Mythology of the High Church of Upward Mobility”
“Meditation and the Californian Value Structure,”
“Meditation and its Educational Merits,”
“Changing Sexual Values as Metaphysical Quests,”
“Aztec Sacrifice: Can it Work Today?”
“Values in a Religiously Pluralistic World,”
“Christian Tantra and Monastic Sensibilities?”
“Environmentalism: A Metaphysical Metaphor for Our Generation?”
“Sacrifice: Symbol Transformation in Various Traditions,”
“The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Cult of Youth,”
“Dionysian Revelry and Fraternity Antics”
“Values and the Mythology of the Super Hero as seen in James Bond,”
“How Do We Find Values in the Contemporary World,”
“Tantra in the context of Pornographic Literature,”
“Values and the Culture of Violence,”
“What is Truth?,”

The possibilities are wide open. The only limit is your imagination. May the Force be with you…

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