For additional details, please refer to the Historical Analysis Essay Progress Check 2 Guidelines and Rubric document.Overview: Throughout Theme: Analyzing History, you have been guided through beginning your Project 2: Historical Analysis Essay assignment, which you will continue to work on in Theme: Thinking About History and formally submit for completion at the end of Week 8 of the course. This progress check assignment provides you with an important opportunity to get valuable instructor feedback on the progress you are making and to ensure you are on the right track for your later submission. Prompt: Theme: Analyzing History has introduced you to how historians approach assessing historical evidence to refine their thesis statement and message. By now you should have enough evidence compiled from your research to begin writing your historical analysis essay. You will begin working on the essay piece by piece. In Theme: Analyzing History, learning block 6-4 (page 1), you will work on drafting the body of your essay. Return to your submission for Progress Check 1 and draft three body paragraphs that explore the causes, course, and consequences of your chosen historical event and use evidence from primary and secondary sources to support your thesis.I have included the previous assignment which you will need to align with this assignment. Please adhere to the rubric.

InstructionsAnswer one question for each of the readings listed below. Responses should be detailed and thorough enough and support your discussion with concrete examples from the readings. Number your responses.#1 - Purity, Danger, and RedemptionAnswer only ONE of the following study questions of James S. Bielo’s article, “Purity, Danger, and Redemption: Notes on Urban Missional EvangelicalundefinedHow do James Bielo characterize “emerging evangelicals” as part of a “postmodern” religious movement? How, according to the people Bielo studied, is “postmodernism” different from “modernism”? How specifically do Kevin and Bart seem express their postmodernism? Finally, how in the conclusion of the article does Bielo challenges the distinction between modernism and postmodernism?How does the “emerging evangelical” movement position itself vis-à-vis contemporary “suburban megachurch” Christianity? What does the emerging evangelical movement suggest to you about the “culture of Christianity” in the 21st century US?Focus on the “ethnographic” dimension of this article. How did Bielo undertake his “fieldwork” and how does he present his ethnographic description? What do Kevin and Bart teach Bielo about Middletown and Walnut Hills, respectively? How does their lifestyle correspond to their religious worldview?Come up with your own insightful, probing question on the article and respond to it using concrete examples from the text.#2 - Calling Everyone to PrayAnswer only ONE of the following study questions on Isaac A. Weiner’s article: “Calling Everyone to Pray: Pluralism, Secularism, and the Adhān in Hamtramck, MichiganundefinedThroughout this article, Weiner continually refers to debates over the place of religion in “the public sphere.” What does he mean by “public sphere”? Based on your reading of the article, what role does religion normally play in the public sphere in the US? How does the Muslim call to prayer present symbolic challenges in the public sphere? (Support your discussion with examples from the article).What are secular (or privatist) arguments that sought to mute the adhān in Hamtramck? How does the author find these problematic? How, in turn, did the pluralists interpret the adhān? What did Weiner find problematic in their interpretation? How in turn did local Muslims interpret the adhān?How has Hamtramck been transformed by the rise and fall of the auto industry, and immigration in the 20th and now 21st centuries? What does this suggest about the long-term presence of the adhān in that community? What is Weiner’s underlying argument here? What is your take away from this article