1. a. What does our third Background Reading, Professor Siebert's, Horkheimer's critical Sociology of Religion: the Relative and the Transcendent, say about religion d revolution, or counterrevolution? Please, start with title analysis. Please, see our Road Map A. B. C. D. on Professor Siebert's
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b. What does your fourth Background Reading, Professor Siebert's, The development of Moral Consciousness toward a Global Ethos say about religion and? Revolution or counterrevolution? Please, start with the analysis of the book title. Please, see our Road Map A. B. C. D.
2.a What does your third self-chosen Depth Study, your specialist or expert from the Depth Study list in the Syllabus, say about religion, or pro-religion, and revolution, or pro-revolution? You can use the same author as in the previous Modules, just another chapter or book by him. Please, start with the introduction of the author. Please, continue with the title analysis. Please, see our Road Map A. B. C. D.
b. What does your fourth self-chosen Depth Study, your specialist, or expert, from the Depth Study List in the Syllabus, say about religion, or pro-religion, and revolution, or pro-revolution? Please, start with the introduction of the author. Please, continue with the title analysis. Please, see our Road Map A. B. C. D.
3.a. What is your own experience of the connection between religion and revolution, or counterrevolution? Please, mention a thinker from our Depth Study List on the Syllabus, who comes close to your own experience of religion and revolution, or counterrevolution.
b. What is the difference between good religion and bad religion, i.e. opium, or bourgeois religion?
c. Please, mention the three great enlighteners, who defined the opium religion, and the good religion.
d. Which are the main three forms of discourse, which developed in the Near East, North Africa, and in the West? Who initiated them? To which form does our discourse on religion and revolution belong?
4.a. Please, describe our Five World Model. Please, differentiate between the religious and the secular form of the Five World Model. Please, see our Road Map A.
b. To which World does religion belong? Please, see our Road Map A and B.
c. In which World does revolution happen, the word understood as the overthrow of a ruling class: slaveholders, feudal lords, capitalist oligarchs, billionaires, etc.. Please, see our Road Map A.
d. Please, describe the dialectic of revelation and autonomous reason, or faith and knowledge.
5.a. Please, give an example of a culture war, in which religious faith, e. g. creationism, and modern enlightenment, e.g. evolutionism, have come into conflict with each other. Do we believe in evolution, or do we know, that evolution has really happened and continues to do so?
b. Do we merely believe in climate change, or do we know, that it is happening?
c. What is religious obscurantism? What is positivism? What is naturalism?
d. What is a fundamentalist? Why, and how, does a believer become a fundamentalist?