Religion and the Life Cycle

Take Home Final

Please write on all three questions (approximately three pages each, double-spaced with 1” margins):

1.     Write an essay in which you compare the stories of John Bailey and Dr. Borg with respect to the religious dimensions of human experience in old age.

2.     Describe the fundamentals of Victor Frankl’s system of logotherapy and explain how it emerges from his experiences in a death camp.

3.     Compare traditional Hindu experiences of love and marriage with those in the U.S.  Then describe Erikson’s theory of identity formation as a necessary precursor to mature love, and assess its adequacy in explain Indian and American experience.

 

The essay is due by midnight on May 6th.

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