Deadline: 29 February 2024, 5pm Word count: 1500 Format: MS word or Pdf – Font s
Deadline: 29 February 2024, 5pm Word count: 1500 Format: MS word or Pdf – Font size 12 Please answer only one of the following questions: 1. What is the significance of pilgrimage as a religious phenomenon? How can pilgrimage be connected to the difference between settled and walking cultures? And what effect the disappearance of pilgrimage in Protestantism had on the main characteristics of the modern world? 2. In what way do archaeological discoveries help us understand the civilisational dynamics that eventually led to the rise of the contemporary world? Present your arguments by selecting a case you consider as particularly relevant. 3. Present and discuss the arguments of Émile Durkheim AND/OR René Girard concerning rituals of sacrifice being the foundations of social practices. What is the relevance, and what are the limits of such a perspective? *Please read and refer to academic texts in all essays. All essays should contain in-text citations and a bibliography.