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BOOK and section: 3 THE SACRED

Art work showing Krishna and Arjuna on horseback

Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. Painting made by ISKCON, Mayapura, India.

Philippe Lissac / Godong / Corbis

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This essay should be a 600-900 word essay focusing on the assigned readings from the course. It is due by 11:55 pm ET on Sunday of Week 6.

• This should be a close reading essay, and should use as evidence primarily passages from the work or works that you discuss. You may not use ANY outside sources without the instructor’s approval.

• The essay should be in MLA essay format (see the attached sample essay below), and use MLA citations. A works cited entry and in-text citations for each text discussed are required.

• It should have a self-assessment (which should answer these questions) as the first page.
• Analytical essays should be focused on making a debatable claim about the work in question; creative submissions should be focused on presenting a work or kind of work from a different angle. Informational essays or essays consisting of summary are not appropriate for either type of essay. Both types of essay should be supported with discussion of specific passages from the text(s) on which the essay is focused. The grading rubrics for both analytical and creative choices are attached.

DISCLAIMER: Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

1. Defining the Sacred: choose 2 sacred works that we have read, 1 from the two Abrahamic faiths (Islam and Christianity) and 1 from the Eastern religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) and make an argument about what similarities these excerpts have, and what those similarities can tell us about what it means for any work to be “sacred.”