Religious Reformation and Conflict: Second Examination
Your examination essays must be sent to my e-mail address
[owenjack@fs.isu.edu] by 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 April 1997.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
The abilities to follow instructions and finish on time are
parts of this examination. Be sure to organize and type your essays in
either ASCII (plain text) or WordPerfect 5.1 or lower. You may use other
sources, but what you write MUST START FROM AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE
ASSIGNED READING. Make sure to cite the sources of any words,
information, and ideas which are not your own (including those of
other students). You MUST follow the instructions for the use of notes
and for the form of notes and the bibliography of cited works that
are described in the pages
on PLAGIARISM and
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CITATION
STYLE.
WRITE ON BOTH OF THE FOLLOWING:
FIRST ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
In her book Ambivalent Conquests, Inga Clendinnen discusses
a number of conflicts involving Castilian settlers, Franciscan
missionaries, and the Maya. You are to write an essay in
which you do the following: 1) explain what these conflicts
were; 2) using the theoretical approach of Jeffrey C.
Alexander, explain why these conflicts took place. Where
possible, make use of comparative cases drawn from Robert
Markus' The End of Ancient Christianity, from Michael G.
Baylor's edition of political tracts from the Radical Reformation,
and from your own research for the class project.
SECOND ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
Using the documents in Michael G. Baylor (ed.), The Radical
Reformation, write an essay in which you evaluate the Project Hypothesis. Both these documents and
Baylor's introductory chapter and supporting material provide a great
deal of information about the social and cultural environments of human
action in German-speaking lands in the mid-1520s. For your evaluation of
the hypothesis, make sure that you employ the full range of Jeffrey C.
Alexander's analytical approach, on the which the hypothesis is based.
All contents copyright (C) 1997.
J. B. Owens
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Revised: 27 March 1997
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