TWO PAPERS ASSIGNMENT
PAPER ONE:
Write a roughly 2500-word research paper. The topic is "open game," as long as it has something to do with religion in Philadelphia or the Delaware Valley, past or present, The word count must be indicated on the title page. At least three scholarly sources are to be cited and a bibliography and complete citations provided.
PAPER TWO:
What is religion? What is a riot? Compare and contrast the role that religion played in the Philadelphia Bible Riots of 1844 and the Columbia Avenue Riots of 1964. In considering the social and cultural realities of Philadelphia today, would you expect similar riots to break out in the city sometime over the next fifty or so years? Why or why not?