Your final paper (4 – 5 pgs.) should be on a topic related to your area of interest (i.e., life stage development, adolescence, spiritual care in late adulthood, counseling youth, intersectionality, syncretism, religious pluralism, theology in the public square, etc.). You will integrate three readings from the course, including any additional sources, to delineate your area of interest.  You may team up with another classmate to present a paper together, based on shared interests.  Final papers account for 40% of the final grade.  Topics should be submitted to the professor for final approval. 
Sources:
Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States (Cohen, Charles L.; Numbers, Ronald, L., 2013)
Religious Pluralism and Pragmatist Theology: Openness and Resistance (Jan-Olav Henriksen, 2019)
When One Religion Isn’t Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People (Duane R. Bidwell, 2018)