Exam 1: Introduction: Understanding World Religions in Global Perspective

Unquestioned belief in science is characteristic of the modern world.

A myth is defined as

Fundamentalists reject ideas derived from the sciences that would call the foundations of their religious _______ into question.

It is possible for a person to practice more than one religion.

This term refers to those who reject aspects of modernity and wish to return to the "purer" sociopolitical order

In the myths of nature, time is viewed as linear.

The final decades of the twentieth century brought a global religious resurgence.

What the authors define as ultimate reality could include

Orthopraxy includes both morality and ritual.

The authors characterize "postmodern" as the time

Marx believed that a large class of urban workers would organize and eventually create a revolution, resulting in a new _______ society.

Which of the following is not necessarily a component of religion?

According to the authors, the great world religions emerged in which of the following centers of civilization in the ancient world?

From a postmodern perspective, all knowledge is _______.

Postmodernists may argue that not only religion but also _______ is an imaginative interpretation of the world rather than final truth about reality.

In modern culture religion played the decisive role in explaining and ordering life.

In the postmodern world, science can be seen as an imaginative interpretation of the world based on faith.

A reliable exact count of the number of adherents to world religions is unavailable due to

The secular state was the expression of "modern" reality.

One of the newest disciplines in the modern university is the academic study of _______.