Module 1

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

10 percent.

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

All of the above.

Perspective that denies the existence of God or gods

Atheism

The world religion that most emphasize doctrines is

Christianity

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

Discourse, practice, community, and institution.

The capacity for seeing things from another's perspective

Empathy

The Hindu dharma or the Ten Commandments

Evealedethics

Perspective that holds there is an ultimate reality a realm of the divine

Faith

Bruce Lincoln's definition of religion could not leave room for an atheistic tradition.

False

In monotheistic religions, the world is normally depicted as a kind of illusion, somehow not altogether real or permanently abiding.

False

Karl Marx was a thoroughgoing idealist who insisted that religious ideas can cause great changes in the economy.

False

Monotheism is the belief in one god who is more powerful than the rest.

False

Rudolf Otto gives preference to the mystical experience, a category that includes such phenomena as Buddhist nirvana.

False

The academic study of religion has been an important field of study in universities for several centuries.

False

Perspective that hold religion unifies our beliefs, acts as a type of social cohesion

Functional

The belief that acknowledges a plurality of gods but elevates one of them to special status

Henotheism

The act of manifestation of the sacred

Hierophany

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..

Characterized religion as the opium of the people

Karl Marx

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

German philosopher who believed that humanity created God as a way of portraying itself

Ludwig Feuerbach

A story or narrative, originally conveyed orally, that sets forth basic truths of a religious tradition; myths often involve events of primordial time

Myth

The belief in many gods

Polytheism

He describes an encounter with "the Holy" as numinous

Rudolf Otto

The cycle of birth, death and rebirth found in Hinduism, Jainism, etc.

Samsara

He theorized religion arises from a longing for security.

Sigmund Freud

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.

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".

Term denoting a religion that maintains belief in God or gods

Theistic

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

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

"World Religions" has been a prominent course of study in American colleges and universities for nearly a century.

True

Experiencing transcendence does not depend upon believing in God or gods.

True

Neither Freud nor Marx ever tried actually to define religion; rather, they tried to explain it away.

True

One effect of feminist theory has been to reveal contributions of women through the ages that hitherto have been largely ignored.

True

Quasi-divine figures, such as angels and demons, though difficult to categorize, are important elements of religion nonetheless.

True

Religions typically prescribe what is right behavior and what is wrong based on a set of ethical tenets such as the Jewish and Christian Ten Commandments.

True

Religious cosmologies typically describe both the origin and the status of the universe.

True

Some religions, Christianity among them, teach that both revealed ethics and individual conscience work together as means of distinguishing right from wrong.

True

The attempt to define religion is a relatively recent phenomenon, beginning for the most part with the European Enlightenment of the 18th century.

True

The traditional Catholic doctrine of purgatory anticipates an intermediary destiny somewhere between the perfect bliss of heaven and the horrible agony of hell.

True

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

What is the correct definition of "religion"?

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

What is the ground of consciousness?.

He emphasized the individual and solitude nature of religion

William James

Henotheism acknowledges

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

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

an effect of societal forces.

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

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.

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.

Globalization is

the linking and intermixing of cultures.