Title: Design a Religion Question Board
Course: REL 201 RTZ

Group project – Design your own religion

You will be assigned to a small working group that will work online design a brand new religion.  You will be assigned into groups during the second week of the semester.  Once you are assigned to your group you will want to start online meetings and organizing your work.  Everyone must participate in the group project!  All work will be documented to whom contributed which parts so that appropriate credit will be disbursed to those who put the work into the project.

Your project can be submitted as a paper, PowerPoint or recorded work. If you have other media formats that you are interested in using please contact me and we can discuss those options.

Your project must include the following information in any order that you choose:

1. Name of your religion (remember you are designing your own religion and not reporting on an established religion.)
2. Location of your religion
3. Any forms of persecution or worldwide acceptance
4. The 9 criteria of religion
  1. Belief system
  2. Community
  3. Central myths
  4. Rituals
  5. Material expression
  6. Symbols
  7. Emotional experience
  8. Ethics
  9. Sacredness

There is no length to the size of this project.  You will be evaluated on completeness of required criteria listed above. You will be evaluated on depth and breadth of the information that you provide.  Do you go into detail or do you provide generic information that leaves the reader wondering what you are trying to state?  You will be evaluated on grammar for written assignments.  Also, for media, you will be graded on style and ease of use for the technology chosen.