Exam 1: The Beginning of Understanding
Exam 1: The Beginning of Understanding85 Questions
Exam 2: Indigenous Religions: North America and Africa81 Questions
Exam 3: Hinduism112 Questions
Exam 4: Jainism49 Questions
Exam 5: Buddhism108 Questions
Exam 6: Sikhism59 Questions
Exam 7: Confucianism54 Questions
Exam 8: Daoism47 Questions
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Exam 11: Judaism107 Questions
Exam 12: Christianity102 Questions
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The Christian Trinity should be compared to the Hindu concept of Trimurti, the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
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Who theorized religion in this way: "People have imagined religion by projecting human desires, needs, or attributes onto imaginary deities"?
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How can a better understanding of religions engender tolerance and prevent sectarian conflicts?
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Discuss Merlin Stone's argument about goddesses and matriarchal societies. What are the implications of her ideas in terms of patriarchy?
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Which of these is a way to study and write about religion that is considered a religious endeavor?
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The best method used by scholars to compare religions is to find
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What are the dimensions of religion discussed by Ninian Smart? Using these dimensions as a guide, would you conclude that a political party or interest group is a religion? Why or why not?
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According to Mircea Eliade, "The gods did more; they manifested the different modalities of the sacred in the very structure of the world and of cosmic phenomena."
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Since the Bible is an ancient document, the oldest aspects of which are now several millennia old, using it to define the religion of the modern church requires a process of interpretation.
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Stone did not base her claims about ancient religion on which of these?
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_______ is denial of the existence of any kind of divinity.
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Some strains of religion are fervently intolerant, fanatical, or violent, just as some secular worldviews are.
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Stories that are recognized by the relevant body of the faithful are considered
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Sigmund Freud advanced the theory that belief in the divine allays our fear of the dangers of life.
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Mircea Eliade argued that religion is an independent variable in the minds of religious people; religion must be explained "on its own terms."
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Which of these scholars proclaimed religion is "the opium of the people"?
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In Christianity, attempts to provide an analysis of the nature of the Divine Being that would preserve both the idea of the Incarnation and the humanness of Jesus resulted in the notion of the Trinity. Which of these dimensions of religion is this described as an example of?
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