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posted Sep 5, 2013, 10:35 AM by Jason Orman [ updated Jan 12, 2016, 10:47 AM]
For every five German soldiers who died in WWII, four of them died on the Eastern Front
Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII
Between 1939 and 1945, the Allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, which averaged to 27,700 tons per month
Out of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats during WWII, only 10,000 returned
Other Military Casualties by Country 1939-1945 (selected):
Australia: 23,365 dead; 39,803 wounded
Austria: 380,000 dead; 350,117 wounded
Belgium: 7,760 dead; 14,500 wounded
Bulgaria: 10,000 dead; 21,878 wounded
Canada: 37,476 dead; 53,174 wounded
China: 2,200,000 dead; 1,762,000 wounded
France: 210,671 dead; 390,000 wounded
Germany: 3,500,000 dead; 7,250,000 wounded(For every five German soldiers who died in WWII, four of them died on the Eastern Front)
Great Britain: 329,208 dead; 348,403 wounded
Hungary: 140,000 dead; 89,313 wounded
Italy: 77,494 dead; 120,000 wounded
Japan: 1,219,000 dead; 295,247 wounded
Poland: 320,000 dead; 530,000 wounded
Romania: 300,000 dead; wounded unknown
Soviet Union: 7,500,000 dead; 5,000,000 wounded(Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII) Many historians believe that the Battle at Stalingrad (1942-1943) is not only arguably the bloodiest battle in history (800,000-1,600,000 casualties), but also the turning point of WWII in Europe. More Russians (military and civilians) lost their lives during the Siege of Leningrad than did American and British soldiers combined in all of WWII.
United States: 405,399 dead; 670,846 wounded

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Assignment Summary

Analyze two images from websites you identified for last week's art assignment.

World history assignment

Learning goals

  1. Student identified two religious objects housed at credible cultural institutions.
  2. Student gave citations (URLs) for two religious objects.
  3. The two objects are from different religions in different parts of the world.
  4. Student will analyze the historical importance of the two objects by answering questions.
  5. Student demonstrates an understanding of the differences between orthodox and heterodox belief.

Background

By now you have a sense of both the history of three major world religions and the art that those religions have influenced. We're going to extend your understanding of art and religion by focusing on how art is used within a religion and in contrast to other religions.

Your task this week is to choose two religious images (art) from the period 1650-1750). Around the Mediterranean this is the period of Scientific Revolution .

In Muslim North Africa and Buddhism China, this era witnesses the rise of a new dynasty (the Qing, 1644-1912) and the continued fracturing of African governments.

Throughout this period, artists continued to turn to religion for inspiration. Still, by this period, all three religions were well-established, and had well-established subject matters, styles, and symbolic languages.

Our task is understand how artists reflected the religious and non-religious themes of the day.

  • Before I lay out your project, let's cover one more concept that is central to understanding religion and the art of religion: orthodoxy and heterodoxy. To be orthodox in a religion means a believer concludes
    there is only one correct way to practice that religion. To the orthodox (an all three religions have orthodox practitioners) any deviation from that one correct way is blasphemy and equally bad as non-believers
    actions. For example, an orthodox Muslim might believe that his way of washing feet before prayer is the only way and all other ways are as bad as polytheism.

  • The term 'orthodox' may be confusing as we often associate it with particular sect of Christianity. And Orthodox Christians are more strict in their interpretation of the Christian message. Nonetheless, orthodox
    (small 'o') refers only to those who are rigid in their faith. Those who believe there are multiple ways to practice a faith are known as heterodox believers. For example, a Buddhist who says 'I meditate four times
    a day, but my neighbor only prays twice, and that's ok' displays a heterodox religious behavior.

  • Briefly: orthodox = strict interpretation of a faith

  • heterodox = diverse interpretations of a faith.

  • Religious art reflects this clash between the orthodox and heterodox. In fact, some of fiercest religious fights of this period are between practitioners of the same religion, not between practitioners of
    different religions. For example, the Sufi and Shia and Protestants and Catholics fought far more against their co-religious than against other religions.

Your project is to chose two images from one of the websites we discussed last week and write about those two images.

Tasks

First: Chose two religious images based on the following criteria

  1. Original artwork is from the period 1650-1750 C.E. and has a creation date that is accurate to within a decade.
  2. Artwork should be housed at a credible cultural institution and the image of the artwork should be hosted on a credible website.
  3. Your two images must be from different religions from different parts of the world (For the purposes of this assignment we'll assume Turkey is not part of Europe).
  4. Your two images must have explicit religious content.

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Second: Answer the following questions in complete sentences for both images. Most questions will require a short paragraph but no question requires more than one paragraph.

  1. What does your image tell us about the material past? (the material past is the stuff of history- shoes, clothes, food, transportation, books, etc).
  2. Is your image more of an orthodox or heterodox religious art piece?
    Why do you conclude that?
  3. Does your image address other religions or just its own? Why does that matter for understanding the history of religion in the region of the image?
  4. What historical trend/event/person/idea or technology is most evident in your image?
  5. In one sentence, what is the historical significance of this piece?

My expectation is that answering these questions will require 200-300
words for each image.

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Place the URL of your images at the bottom of your paper. You may, but
do not have to, post the images themselves.

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Third: Submit your answers to the Experiment 9 discussion board.

Grading criteria

You will be graded based on the following rubric:

  1. Assignment effectively addressed all of the questions asked.
  2. Assignment uses clear language with a formal and clear style.
  3. Assignment contains no spelling, punctuation , or grammatical errors.
  4. Assignment demonstrates understanding about the period studied.
  5. Assignment effectively analyzes the history in a religious art image.
  6. Student gave citations (URLs) for two religious objects.
  7. The two objects are from different religions in different parts of the world.
  8. Student will analyze the historical importance of the two objects by answering questions.
  9. Student demonstrates an understanding of the differences between orthodox and heterodox belief.