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Inter-religious Dialogue Quiz

The document outlines questions for a take-home quiz on two topics: 1) Martin's essay on inter-religious understanding, asking about the type of discourse, arguments, key points on the increasing importance of interfaith dialog and how colonialism affected it, and shifts in religious scholarship. 2) A lecture follow-up discussing whether a professor justified using a photo of his cat by mentioning it three times, analyzing if the cat engaged in scholarly discourse and employed rhetorical appeals. It also asks about examples of rhetorical appeals in Mr. Rogers' congressional testimony.

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Inter-religious Dialogue Quiz

The document outlines questions for a take-home quiz on two topics: 1) Martin's essay on inter-religious understanding, asking about the type of discourse, arguments, key points on the increasing importance of interfaith dialog and how colonialism affected it, and shifts in religious scholarship. 2) A lecture follow-up discussing whether a professor justified using a photo of his cat by mentioning it three times, analyzing if the cat engaged in scholarly discourse and employed rhetorical appeals. It also asks about examples of rhetorical appeals in Mr. Rogers' congressional testimony.

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Take-home Quiz #2:

Martin“Introduction: Inter-religious Understanding”

 Martin “Introduction: Inter-religious Understanding"


 What kind of discourse is it?
 What is the author’s argument?
 Key substantive points:
 Why is inter-religious dialog increasingly important?
 How did colonialism, denigration and romanticization
affect inter-religious dialog until recently?
 What major event sparked a change? What have been the
major ramifications of this event?
 What major shifts/phases occurred in religious scholarship
in the 20th Century? (Does this cohere with the pattern of
the Hegelian dialectic?)
 How has this shift affected understanding within given
religions?
 Does her essay contain any logical fallacies?
 Do you dis/agree? Why?
 Lecture Follow-up:
 Prof. Geitner was told that in order to justify using a photo of
his cat in his talk, he had to work it into the lecture at least
three times. Did he succeed?:
 Was his cat engaged in discourse in the photo and
accompanying anecdote? Why or why not?
 If it was engaged in discourse, which of the four main
scholarly forms of discourse was it engaged in? (And
could it be argued to have engaged in any of the others?)
 Did the cat manifest a rhetorical purpose? If so, what was
that purpose?
 What are the three rhetorical appeals, and which one/s did
it employ?
 In the transcript of Mr. Rogers testimony in front of
Congress, can you give examples of him deploying each of
the three rhetorical appeals?

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