A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

My pictorial depiction of the world’s major religions, drawn for my students in World Religions:

And along with the sketch, four questions to frame our ridiculously brief examination of the world’s major religions:

1. How does R characterize ideal existence? What’s so great about it?

2. How does R characterize mundane existence? What’s so terrible about it?

3. How does R explain the radical gulf between our mundane existence and our ideal existence? What have we done wrong?

4. How does R advise us to overcome that radical gulf? What can we do?

What do you think? A useful framework for approaching the world’s religions under considerable time constraints, or pedagogical malpractice?

2 thoughts on “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words”

It’s funny ’cause it’s deep.

(Edited to include the actual picture, instead of having to click on the G-D PDF.)

Oh, that’s much better than the link. Thanks.

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