Team Paper: In the Psychology of Religion and Coping, Kenneth Pargament describes the way that religion conserves and transfonns frameworks of meaning in ordcr to cope with suffering and change.

Using Pargament's approach, choose a religious tradition in which coping has an Important role.

Demonstrate that role through descriptions of ritual, praycr and/or belief.

As part of this project students are required to visit a religious institution connected with the tradition they are observing.

A list of sites will be distributed in class. Visits are to be conducted using participant observation methodology.