Describe your “Actual Experience” (the inner emotions, thoughts, feelings, perceptions, etc.) that were evoked by the ritual.
Essay 1 (due ): “Sacred Spaces & Rituals”
Essay 1 “My Experience With Ritual” (On Canvas) Requirements
> “Directions: 3 pgs/750 wds Required. 12 pt. Times New Roman. 1 ½ Space. 1000 pts.
Bubble Map and Outline (150 pts)
Paragraph Requirements/Content:
> Introductory Paragraph I (150 pts): Provide a Brief Context or Historical Background for the ritual. “Context” can include everything from an introduction to your family’s or church’s traditional ritual, or perhaps to your own difficulties and confusion in hunting for “just the right” ritual to perform. This can include interviews that you conducted to understand how to do conduct the sacred ritual. Anything that led to your finally deciding what to do for this assignment’s ritual.
> Paragraph II (200 pts): Explain your “Pre-Ritual Preparations” : Arranging a “sacred space,” fasting, bathing, arranging ritual materials, selecting a book passage or prayer, music, incense, lighting, etc.
Describe the “Elements of Ritual” that you chose to perform and experience: movement, prayer/chant, breath work, texts, etc.
Describe your “Actual Experience” (the inner emotions, thoughts, feelings, perceptions, etc.) that were evoked by the ritual.
Provide any final remarks about the Overall Experience: How you felt about participating in a historical recreation of an ancestral form of worship or supplication (if that was the case); what you learned about ritual as a form of “magic”; what parts of the ritual felt particularly effective; how your understanding of ritual has perhaps changed as a result of your research and experiences.
