{"id":9456,"date":"2023-03-16T00:14:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T00:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/1-3-reflection-post-what-is-or-isnt-a-religion-and-why-personal-opinion-exercise-credit-no-credit\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T07:44:54","slug":"reflection-post-what-is-or-isnt-a-religion-and-why-personal-opinion-exercise-credit-no-credit","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/reflection-post-what-is-or-isnt-a-religion-and-why-personal-opinion-exercise-credit-no-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection post what is or isn\u2019t a religion and why? Personal opinion exercise, credit\/no credit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned earlier, reflection posts are credit\/no credit assignments*  that are more about personal perspectives and opinion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m sure many of you have been in a situation in which someone referred to something they hold dear as their &#8216;religion&#8217; &#8220;Oh man, football isn&#8217;t a sport, it&#8217;s my religion!&#8221; something like that.  What do people mean when they say things like that?  What do they mean?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What I want you to reflect on for this post is this; When you look at the world around you, some people treat things &#8216;like a religion&#8217; when they aren&#8217;t.  What makes something a religion, both in the literal and the figurative way?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m looking for reflection and insight, please don&#8217;t post something simplistic like &#8220;Religions are religions because they are, and things that aren&#8217;t aren&#8217;t because they&#8217;re not.&#8221;..<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>*For the time being these are credit\/no credit, if I feel that students aren&#8217;t treating these seriously I can always make them for direct grades (and maybe even require multiple responses and all that :P)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned earlier, reflection posts are credit\/no credit assignments* that are more about personal perspectives and opinion.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure many of you have been in a situation in which someone referred to something they hold dear as their &#8216;religion&#8217; &#8220;Oh man, football isn&#8217;t a sport, it&#8217;s my religion!&#8221; something like that. What do people mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[1108],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/9456\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}