chapter 1 & 2

The 1819 Civilization Fund Act

. Both a and b a. aimed to educate native children in an effort to "civilize" them b. led to the development of many boarding schools

The world religion that most emphasize doctrines is

. Christianity.

Sweat lodge ceremonies

. all of the above.

Mabel McKay was well known for

. both a and b. her skill in healing the sick her skill in basketry

in 2009, the percentage of senior pastors in Protestant Christian churches who are women was

10 percent.

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed in

1978.

What is the Popol Vuh

A Mayan creation narrative.

Who was Black Elk?

A famous Lakota religious leader.

Among many examples of a place of special significance established by a hierophany is

All of the above.

What happened at Wounded Knee?

American troops massacred hundreds of people who had gathered for the Ghost Dance..

The god Quetzalcoatl is recognized in

Aztec religion.

Which of the following is a rite of passage?

Both a and b. the vision quest the kinaalda

Which of the following is an important goal of a vision quest?

Communicating with the spirit world.

Bruce Lincoln's definition of religion emphasizes four "domains":

Discourse, practice, community, and institution.

According to William James, religion is "the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men __________."

In their solitude.

Which of the following is not typical of religious revelation?

It is brought about through prayer on the part of a congregation of worshipers..

Religion functions in an unhealthy manner as an opiate that deters the suffering individual from attending to the true cause of affliction, according to

Karl Marx.

Sandpainting has been used as a healing rite by

Navajo peoples.

Which of the following was not one of the goals of a kachina dance, as discussed in the reading?

Purifying the body through sweat.

Which of the following is an important method of healing?

Sandpainting.

A primary concern regarding a sound academic approach to the study of world religions involves the fact that it arose within an intellectual culture that

Tended to take for granted that Christianity was a model of what religion ought to be.

Who was Wovoka?

The founder of the second Ghost Dance.

French sociologist Émile Durkheim insists in his definition of religion on

The unification brought about by "beliefs and practices," culminating in a "moral community called a Church".

Which of the following is FALSE?

There is one form of Native American religion..

A statement that is foundational to the field of religious studies is:

To know one just one religion is to know none..

Which of the following is not among the prominent questions addressed by religions?

What is the correct definition of "religion"?.

Henotheism acknowledges

a plurality of gods but elevates one of them to special status.

When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mesoamerica

all of the above. a. the indigenous religion of the Mayan peoples was banned b. written versions of holy texts were burned c. the Maya were often forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism

Underlying Durkheim's definition is a theory that reduces religion to being

an effect of societal forces.

Trickster figures in mythology

both a and b. teach important life lessons through their actions

Rudolf Otto's The Idea of the Holy

describes the encounter with "the Holy" as "numinous".

Religious scholar Ninian Smart's "dimensional" scheme divides the various aspects of religious traditions into seven dimensions, which include

doctrinal and ritual.

The capacity for seeing things from another's perspective is

empathy.

Globalization is

imperial expansion and domination.

The so-called Golden Rule set forth in the Christian New Testament

is pronounced in similar forms in the scriptures of virtually all of the world's major traditions.

The essential teachings of Native American religions are often found in

sacred narratives or myths.

For the academic study of religion, as opposed to doing religion or being religious,

supernatural beings and events normally are held to be beyond its reach

the Pueblo peoples are from

the Southwestern United States.

Tales about the landscape are important to the White Mountain Apache because

they convey important moral teachings.

Certain basic and extremely significant scientific questions remain unanswered; for example,

what is the ground of consciousness?.