User:Gclark1020/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Lived religion)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(I chose this article because I was interested in learning about what Lived Religion entails. I wanted to see how it would apply to my course of the work in the church in the digital age. As I started reading, I realized that it is the sociology of religion that it is embodying and I believe that does apply strongly to how the church may be virtual or use digital devices to further their work in the public arena to spread the gospel.)

Evaluate the article
( I was initially given a warning type box from the site saying that this article needed editing. It stated that there were too many overly lengthy quotations for a wikipedia article as well as relying to heavily on references from primary sources, so that was a reminder to me to watch for those things throughout the article.

Lead Section:

- It gave a good introductory sentence and origin of where the name came from. The lead section is concise and includes the topics that will make up the rest of the article. The Lead section does exactly what it is meant to do in this article.

Content:

- At the end of the lead section, that last sentence states that the topic of lived religion had expanded to include many topics and scholars, yet there were none other mentioned than only 2 at the beginning of that said paragraph. It seems necessary that there should be more topics listed in the article along with a few other popular scholars on the topic if the lead section wants to state that there are many topics and scholars within the topic.

- The descriptions given, especially Hall's critique of popular religion section, was terribly brief. Was it necessary to the article for it to be that short, or could more have been added?

- Descriptions needed to be more thorough throughout the rest of the article.

Sources:

- I do agree with the talk page notification given to me as I began to read, the only two sources were books from primary sources. There needs to be more sources linked such as scholarly work done on the sociology of religion. There are scholarly articles on this subject that could make this article much more diverse and informative for the reader.

Images:

The one image used does have purpose in the article referencing a statue in an area where lived religion is very important. More could be used with more information and resources used.

Tone is good in this article, for what is included the article is informative, just not quite enough for the topic itself.

My overall impressions was that this article is a good start to a informative topic that is needed for those studying this particular topic within the sociology of religion, but it needs more credible resources to make it more detailed and helpful for those who need it. )