How is religious worldview represented in the real world?

The worldview project is finally over! And it definitely went out with a bang. I’m going to talk about the conclusion of the project and what we did leading up to it. The first project of the unit was to make a short video in an app called Explain Everything which showed the evolution of our worldview, mine isn’t too good because I was having a lot of problems with it, but here it is anyway. The next thing we did wasn’t really a project, it was a field study where we visited religious places of worship like a Buddhist temple, a church, a mosque, and some others. It was mostly so that we could get a firsthand experience of what the religions were like, and what their worldviews were like.

The final project of our worldview unit was the winter exhibition, where we show off everything we’ve learned in one giant project. Before we get to that part, I’m going to talk about how we made our exhibit. The religion our group was studying was Christianity. First, everyone in the group had to make their own photo documentary, which is basically a bunch of photos in a row that tell a story. We used the photos from our field studies at the various places of worship, and selected the best ones to use in our documentary. Then we put them out for everyone to see during the exhibition. The link to my photo documentary is here.

The second step was to design a poster that would be projected onto the wall. We had to make several drafts of it, all of which are in this slideshow:

The first draft was just a rough idea, and the next two were two different options for if we used that style. We decided to ditch the cross though, because it didn’t give us enough room for drawings. The next drafts really just had updated drawings, but the main changes were the switching of the priest to Jesus, and the background colour being changed to orange. Now that our group had finished the poster and the photo documentaries, it was time to design our exhibit. Our tables were laid out like this:

All the tables were covered with yellow paper, and each table had something on it. On table two and three we had voting covers with photos on them, they were hiding the projector to make our exhibit more pleasing to the eye. On table four we had snacks (hot cross cookies and fishy crackers) and on table five we kept our iPads with the photo documentaries playing on them. On table two we also had an activity where you would write down your Christmas wish (the exhibition took place just before winter break) and then we would hang them on a fish mobile we made (because the fish is a symbol of Christianity) and it would be a piece of art if we got enough people to do the activity. Table one didn’t really have anything on it. The actual exhibition went really well, we got lots of Christmas wishes for our fish mobile, and lots of people were asking us questions about different parts of our exhibit, which we would answer and they would walk away knowing more than they did before. Overall I think the exhibition was a big success, although I think I could’ve innovated more during the design process.

Now to the question in the title, and the driving question of the unit, how is religious worldview represented in the real world? Well, each different religion, and therefor, each different religious worldview, has different beliefs, and those are expressed through their religious practices that are unique to them. For example, a Muslim prays five times a day, which is a representation of their worldview. Religious ceremonies/rituals/etc are also real life representations of worldview, because they usually include their beliefs and values in some part of the event. Anyways, that’s pretty much it, the links to my group members blogs are here: http://www.blog44.ca/matthewt/, http://www.blog44.ca/hollyr/. http://www.blog44.ca/felixl/. http://www.blog44.ca/kaiar/