Prompt outline for essay
Offer a summary of the key ideas expressed in all of t
Prompt outline for essay
Offer a summary of the key ideas expressed in all of the Darcia Narvaez videos (including the ‘our tribal nature’ video) on the significance of indigenous socialization practices. Be sure to give attention to the distinction between the competitive individualistic socialization of Western children compared to the cooperative empathic socialization of tribal peoples. Why are indigenous peoples more empathically connected to their emotional selves, other people and nature then we are? Show you understand the social implications of these differences.
Use these videos to illuminate the meaning of the Huston Smith essay on Native American indigenous Spirituality and their overall world view. Be sure to cover the key sections: 1. knowing what is important, 2. Symbolic minds 3. Metaphysical accuracy.
How do the videos and the Smith reading support each other? In other words, show how they mutually illuminate each other. Conclude with a comment on what distinguishes the native American (tribal/indigenous) approach to social reality from our own modern industrial era approach to social reality. Why might we need to retrieve what we have lost?
Part 2
Show how you comprehend the main ideas of non-violence as represented in the Walter Wink video on the non-violent core of the Christian Gospels (What Jesus really said) as well as the brief obituary on Walter Wink’s interpretations the Christian gospel. Be sure to show you understand the Gospel section in Mathew on “turning the other cheek.”
Show your comprehension of the main ideas of the assigned reading on Gandhi and nonviolent social theory and practice. Show you grasp the meaning of ahimsa (non-violence or non-hurting) and Satyagraha (‘Truth power’ or “speaking truth to power”) in the Gandhi reading. It is essential that you show your read this brief Gandhi section.
How do the Gandhi teachings relate to Walter Wink’s depiction of Christian scripture? How do these ideas contradict our usual modern “taken for granted” assumptions about social reality and human nature?