Multimedia Presentations: The Assignment

This semester, you will be responsible for a 10-minute multimedia presentation on a spirituality-themed topic:

Requirements:

• The presentation must be no more than 10 minutes in length
• There should be 10-12 slides (including mandatory introduction and conclusion slides) and should contain least one video or audio clip—absolutely no more than 1.5 minutes in length
• A works cited slide in MLA Style 
  
• Presentations will be submitted in Canvas
  

Additionally:

• You may utilize any presentation program you like (PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, etc.)
• It is highly recommended that you present from a downloaded version of your presentation
• Presentations without an introduction and/or conclusion cannot score higher than a C 

Topics:

1. No Bitching: What’s the True Meaning of Karma?
2. End Times: Three Religious Views on the End of the World
3. Ancient Deities: The Egyptian Gods
4. Will We Ever Have an Atheist President?—Atheists and American Politics
5. Understanding Sharia
6. American-Born Faiths: Mormonism
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc
8. The Crusades: An Historical Overview
9. The Amish and Rumspringa
10. American-Born Faiths: Christian Science
11. Angels Around the World: Four International Views
12. Wait For It: Inside the Purity Movement
13. What Jesus Likely Looked Like
14. On the Victorian Obsession with the Occult
15. Were Jesus and Mary Magdalene Married?: The Cases For and Against
16. Possession: Views from Around the World
17. Ancient Deities: The Greek Gods
18. The Healing Power of Prayer: What Science Says
19. Acts of Faith: The Snake Handlers
20. What is a Vision Quest?
21. Three Goddesses: Danu, Durga and Itzpapalotl
22. What is Santeria?
23. Ancient Deities: The Mayan Gods
24. Who was the Buddha?
25. The Controversy of von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
26. Mythical Creatures of the Bible
27. One Nation Under God: Understanding Christian Dominionism
28. What are The Gnostic Gospels?
29. Three Christian Mysteries: The Incorruptibles, Bérenger Saunière, and Stigmata
30. Ancient Deities: The Norse Gods
31. Three American Indian Creation Myths
32. New Gods: When People Worship Technology
33. Animals Who are Worshiped
34. Honor Killings: A Worldwide Crisis
35. White Christian Nationalism: When White Nationalism and Christianity Mix
36. Infamous Cults: The Branch Davidians, The People's Temple, and The Manson Family
37. Banned: Religions in Totalitarian States
38. God and Sex: Three Positive Religious Views on Sexuality
39. Movie Uproars: The Exorcist, Dogma, and The Passion of the Christ 
40. Understanding Prosperity Gospel

Choose partners and topics via Google Docs here: 

• Sec. 8
• Sec. 25

Due: Tue 2.15 (by 10 p.m.)