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Problem
Group I- Answer only ONE of the following questions. Write your answer in four pages, font size 12 and use double-space. Answer the question from the reading material that we have studied during the course.
1. Discuss Human Emryonic Stem Cells rseaecrh and ethics.
2. Discuss the Marxian perspective of religion as alienation as explained by Pals.
3. Discuss the competing consumer and religious identities and their negative effects on citizenship identity in the Israeli politics as explained by Ram.
4. Discuss the role played by Civil Religion in America in the American war of independence and the civil war.
5. Discuss Clifford Geertz's definition of religion.
6. Discuss the possible contradiction between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and traditional forms of religious practices as explained by Smolin.
Group II- Answer only ONE of the following questions. Write your answer in three pages, font size 12 and use double-space. Use Internet sources and academic papers, which you can find on the digital library and Google Scholar, to find enough information for your answer. You may use any academic style at your convenience to write your footnotes, and your bibliography. You must write a bibliography.
1. Write a short essay on the "heartbeat" bills.
2. Write a short essay on Prosperity Theology.
3. Write a short essay on the controversy around tax exemptions of church activities.
4. Write a short essay on a popular Christian Women podcast.
5. Write a short essay on legal restrictions of religious slaughtering in Europe.
6. Write a short essay on the class between religious liberty and parental autonomy on the one hand, and the right of the states to protect children on the other hand, as manifested in legal cases cncerning Christian Science Church followers.