- Describe yourself as a bio-psycho-socio-cultural-spiritual being.
State how these characteristics influenced the opportunities and barriers you have experienced so far in your life.
Include in your discussion how the culture is constructed and maintained. For example, you may choose to explore migration patterns, family organization, child-rearing practices, religious beliefs, secrets, rituals, attitudes towards illness and death, attitudes towards other cultures and deviance, family and gender roles - Discuss membership of the dominant culture or non-dominate culture you identified.
- Discuss how your cultural identity influences your values as a social worker? If more than one culture comprises the culture of origin, how are they negotiated?
- Diversity, discrimination, and oppression affect everyone, whether they are part of a dominant or subordinated group. Describe the impact of diversity, discrimination, and oppression on your development and worldview (personal and professional).
- Cite at least four academic references that relate to your cultural experience
Category: Religion
The significance of the statement, “Jesus was a Jew”
1. What is the significance of the statement, “Jesus was a Jew”?
2. In what ways did the early disciples of Jesus assume that they were carrying on their own Jewish tradition (as a reform movement), rather than starting a new religious tradition?
3. What belief and/or practice was the breaking point between Jews and the followers of Jesus?
4. If Jesus were to come back and see the religion that bears his name, Christianity, would he recognize it? What might he criticize?
How culture, religion, and socioeconomics might influence one’s perspective
Explain how culture, religion, and socioeconomics might influence one’s perspective on the value of psychotherapy treatments. Describe how legal and ethical considerations for group and family therapy differ from those for individual therapy and explain how these differences might impact your therapeutic approaches for clients in group, individual, and family therapy. Support your rationale with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.
Role of religion in Appiah’s analysis
“What roles does religion play in Appiah’s analysis? Is the “contamination” Appiah is advocating good for religion, or should religions (and cultures) avoid it? Should religion remain changeless and resist any outside influences that might bring about change, or should it be open to those influences (become more “cosmopolitan”) even it means questioning or abandoning some of its traditions?
Link to the article
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/01/magazine/01cosmopolitan.html?pagewanted=all
Religion from the first part half of the class
Compare a religion from the first part half of the class (North American indigenous religions, African indigenous religions, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism) compare and contrast their world outlooks, historical development, and their way of life.
Mindful questions
How have Roman Catholic priests experienced and conceptualized their own masculinity,
sexuality, and power?
To what extent have the interests of the institutional Church differed from those of low-level
priests? Parishioners?
How does McDevitt’s study portray clerical sexuality? To what extent can we extrapolate from that
data (or not)? Why?
How have financial interests intersected with sexuality and power in the Church?
Links for the cited sourcesA
Armstrong-Partida’s “Introduction: Understanding Priestly Masculinity” in Defiant Priests
https://utep.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTEP_INST/1f86khb/cdi_walterdegruyter
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Frontline: Secrets of the Vatican
https://utep.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=104
347&xtid=58693
McDevitt’s “Sexual and Intimacy Health of Roman Catholic Priests” in Journal of
Prevention & Intervention in the Community
https://utep.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UTEP_INST/1f86khb/cdi_walterdegruyter
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Being a Roman citizen in Paul’s day.
Discuss what it meant to be a Roman citizen in Paul’s day. How were citizens better off than the slave class?
Saul’s conversion experience
Summarize Saul’s conversion experience and how he describes himself in various New Testament texts. In what ways do you see this as a dramatic life change?
Barnabas
Who was Barnabas? List and detail his appearances in the Book of Acts. Describe his importance in assisting Paul to get acquainted with Christians.
Judaism
At the heart of Judaism are the core dogmas that have defined it and have been held through the ages: There is no God but God; one God, indivisible. God had chosen the children of Israel (Abraham and his offspring) as his people, and he agreed to be their exclusive God. At the heart of God is his love for humanity. Humanity is his crowning work of creation. God is understood in a myriad of ways—as Lord, as nursing mother, as light, anthropomorphic as in changing his mind, beyond comprehension, all powerful (omnipotent), and all knowing (omniscient). Life is understood as sacred—a means by which we are blessed in order that we should be a blessing to others. Suffering is redemptive, and faith is restorative. Faith is passed on through the matrilineal line of descent, as opposed to the prevailing patrilineal line so common in most other religions. Proselytizing is not actively practiced but accepted, as in the story of Ruth.
Question to Answer:
What is unique to Judaism as a religion, and how has it influenced all subsequent monotheistic religions?