Quiz 1

Question 1

How did students react to Clark’s teaching of satirical religion?

Answer 1

Many found it offensive, especially those from conservative backgrounds

Question 2

what was interesting about students offense taken to their own religion versus other religions?

Answer 2

they were more offended by jokes at their own religions expense

Question 3

Why did Clark use the Christian Hard Rock episode of south park for his students?

Answer 3

to showcase what satire comedy is

Question 4

why does clark believe students become offended by satire?

Answer 4

due to a misunderstanding of what satire comedy is

Question 5

what should 1 goal be of teaching religion and popular culture?

Answer 5

enlighten students about the nature of popular culture and its religious aspects,
-particularly the ways in which western culture typically provides room for religious ideas, themes and values to be communciated, explored, and evaluated in various forms

Question 6

second reason to educate students on religion and pop culture?

Answer 6

students should be taught to recognize ways in which religious communities sometimes make use of popular secular ideas, products, practice to further their own so-called sacred goals

Question 7

what is the purpose of the ancient caricature found in Book of Isaiah?

Answer 7

polemical, designed to discourage such a practice among the originally-intended ancient israelite readers of the text

Question 8

what is the point of satire ?

Answer 8

if some belief or practice is considered to be false, it can and should be made fun of, even if it belongs to sacred beliefs and practices of some other culture

Question 9

what is the use of humour?

Answer 9

used for centuries as a tool for critiquing what some consider potentially dangerous, excessive, or just plain silly beliefs and practices

Question 10

what is satire primarily intended to do? (Griffin)

Answer 10

act of inquiry or exploration into the truth, falsity, or reasonableness of a particular idea or practice

Question 11

does satire answers questions that it raises?

Answer 11

not necessairly

Question 12

does satire prescribe alternative beliefs to the one it critiques?

Answer 12

no

Question 13

what is the ultimate goal of satire (griffin)

Answer 13

create a more reflective, more critical thinking, and therefore wiser audience

Question 14

Griffins method for analyzing satirical texts

Answer 14

• key components that include
  1. inquiry
  2. provocation
  3. display
  4. play
  5. occasionally “unstable irony”

Question 15

what is meant by inquiry and provocation?

Answer 15

does this make sense, or is it really true?
- writes in order to discover, explore, survey, attempt to clarify

Question 16

provocation meaning

Answer 16

seeks to inspire critical thought by raising questions about things previously deemed unquestionable
“pull the carpet out from under” the audience
- abraisive

Question 17

what is the “ultimate provocation”

Answer 17

make readers look in the mirror and see that they are not and can never be what they claim to be. Satire cannot mend them , it can only hope to make them see

Question 18

what is display

Answer 18

refers to any satiric feature intended to demonstrate the satirist’s gifts and talents for entertaining, for acquiring the audiences admiration and respect, even if it occurs in the context of being highly critical of something the audience holds dear

Question 19

what is the affect of display?

Answer 19

builds respect and trust, useful to keep an audience attention, and softening abrasiveness from the provocation

Question 20

what is “play”

Answer 20

“joyous exercise or movement” which not only entertains but also provides an “arena… marked off from business or serious purpose”

Question 21

what is the result of satiric play?

Answer 21

makes room for the treatement of otherwise serious subject matter in ways not normally allowed

Question 22

what is unstable irony?

Answer 22

according to Griffin, satire can acquire a momentum of its own, and spin out of control
- the satirist can display an almost devilish attack on anything deemed worthy of destruction, even if this undermines the overacrching purpose of inquiry

Question 23

how is Cartman a good example of what not to be?

Answer 23

he infuriates characters and the audience, bigot and racist, audience loves to hate him. He is an effective example that clarifies what appropriate behaviours are

Question 24

what does cartman embody about the misunderstanding of satire?

Answer 24

the opposite of cartman is what the creators are advocating, one that immature and unenlightened viewers most often fail to understand

Question 25

How is cartman an example of play?

Answer 25

because he is a ficticious character in a 2d cartoon, he can get away more with it than a realistic human character, ingenious work of the creators to push boundaries with this concept

Question 26

Frazer definition of religion

Answer 26

a propitatiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life

Question 27

monotheism

Answer 27

later stage of cilviliation than polytheism

Question 28

durkeim beliefs

Answer 28

looking at the most simple and “primitive” religion in current existence, he could discover the elements at the base of all religion no matter how sophisticated

Question 29

totemisim

Answer 29

object representing an animal or plant, sacred, and thus set apart from the profane

Question 30

Durkeim religion definition

Answer 30

unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden - beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a church, all those who adhere to them

Question 31

in simple terms, what is religion to durkeim

Answer 31

about social cohesion, society and religion are irrevocably joined together