Term Paper:

In the Psychology of Religion Coping, Kenneth Pargament describes the way that religion conserves and transforms frameworks of meaning in order 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, prayer 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.