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Comparative Religion: Alternative Groups

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Alternative Groups

Learning about 10 smaller religious groups

Purpose (What you will learn): This Net Investigation discusses ten groups that are of interest to students. Some groups call themselves Christian, some don't. Christians recognize some of these as Christian, but not others.


Click here to go to the links for the religious groups. Choose four groups that interest you from the list provided. You may want to browse through several before you make your decision. Remember that you will have to use your "Back" button to come back to this activity.

Browse around the web sites of the groups you chose. Some good places to look are any buttons that say "About Us" or "Beliefs" or anything that points you toward what that group believes and how they live their lives.

Take notes on the assigned subjects. If there are other details that are interesting to you, they will probably be interesting to your classmates, so include them! Remember that the goal is to learn what these groups believe and practice. Click here for a printable table in Word for note-taking.

When you finish browsing and taking notes on the four groups, get together with three or four classmates and share what you have learned. If you studied the same group as another person, see if you found similar information. If you studied different groups than your friends, share what you thought was most interesting about the groups you researched. Listen carefully to what they tell you about the groups they researched.

Create a graphic organizer that compares and contrasts the groups you chose to each other and to other Christian beliefs. It will be useful to have separate sections in your graphic organizer that address the different issues you read about.

 

Created by:

Mary D.P. Wagner

Social Studies Teacher

James Hubert Blake High School

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