Your task is produce an ethnographic study in the form of a written report, that investigates and compares religious perspectives on an ethical issue. You will present the findings of your report as part of a multimodal presentation, that will need to be 8‐10 minutes in length. You must research the religious perspective of Catholicism and one other world religion, either Judaism, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism, on one of the ethical issues listed below.
ETHICAL ISSUES
| abortion | euthanasia | capital punishment | bioethics |
| embryotic stem cell research | artificial contraception | homosexuality | same‐sex marriage |
| poverty | racism | war | refugees |
| feminism | slavery | human trafficking | environmental stewardship |
"Ethnography is both a social science research method and its final written product. As a method, ethnographic observation involves embedding oneself deeply and over the long-term in a field site of study in order to systemically document the everyday lives, behaviors, and interactions of a community of people. As a written product, an ethnography is a richly descriptive account of the social life and culture of the group studied."
Crossman, A. (2017). Ethnography: What It Is and How To Do It. [online] ThoughtCo. Available at: https://www.thoughtco.com/ethnography-definition-3026313 [Accessed 4 May 2017].
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Google comes back with over 8 million hits and it will take a lot of persistence to go through them and find the best ones. Most people never look past the results on the first page and there are only 10 results on the first page. Remember, Google does not put them in order of the best resources.
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Yippy, comes back with only 1.5 million results, with 20 results on the first page and contains a menu of the left to help you filter the top 164 results, that are suitable for research purposes. If you click on the + it will drop down the categories under that sub-heading and tell you haw many results match that heading. Have a look at: Catholic Church and Abortion / Bible / Catechism of the Catholic Church / Ban on Abortion.
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