RJM2 — RJM2 TASK 1: CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY

Differentiates Cultural and Religious Customs and Practices

The learner differentiates among diverse cultural and religious customs and practices.

INTRODUCTION

Christianity and Islam are the two most followed religions in the world and have influenced the art, politics, and culture of societies around the globe for the last 1,500 years. Over the centuries, these two Abrahamic religions, which share foundational beliefs, have evolved significantly as new adherents incorporated local customs into their religious practices and as divisions occurred over conflicting beliefs and leadership disputes.

In this task, you will examine how empires as well as knowledge and culture contributed to the spread of Islam and Christianity throughout Africa and Eurasia from each religion’s place of origin in the Middle East. You will also examine similarities between the beliefs and practices of the two religions.

REQUIREMENTS

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A.  Analyze how different contexts contributed to the spread of Christianity from its founding until 1500 CE by doing the following:

1.  Describe one example of how empires contributed to the spread of Christianity.

2.  Describe one example of how knowledge or culture contributed to the spread of Christianity.

B.  Analyze how different contexts contributed to the spread of Islam from its founding until 1500 CE by doing the following:

1.  Describe one example of how empires contributed to the spread of Islam.

2.  Describe one example of how knowledge or culture contributed to the spread of Islam.

C.  Describe one similarity between the beliefs or practices of Christianity and Islam from their founding until 1500 CE.