Religion Exam 1 practice questions Chapter 1

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

10 percent.

The world religion that most emphasize doctrines is

Christianity

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.

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.

The capacity for seeing things from another's perspective is

The capacity for seeing things from another's perspective is

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".

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"?.

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

What is the ground of consciousness?.

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 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.