Exam 1: Introduction: Understanding World Religions in Global Perspective

This transition period, marked by trends of urbanization, encompassed the emergence of world religions and their development to Classical Expressions.

In the myths of liberation, the problem of life is nature.

In the myths of history, the problem of life is

The two different religions that emerged in China to restore balance in society and the universe were _______ and Confucianism.

This form of religious language is typical of religious traditions in which human beings seek a direct embodied experience of the ultimate reality.

During the modern period, the social authority of religion was undermined by _______.

_______ imagination is necessary to understand metaphor and messages of different times and places.

Max Müller argued that "the person who knows only one religion understands _______."

The authors define 'sacred' as

The comparative study of religions originated in secular universities.

These actions are thought to 'tie and bind' an individual to the sacred and to the community

What conditions and essential questions about life led to the emergence of the great world religions?

Orthodoxy is a part of only Western religions.

How might someone justify the statement that both postmodernist and fundamentalist religious movements are examples of Peter Berger's "heretical imperative"?

In terms of religion, Postmodernists reject the dominance of

In the myths of _______, the goal of religion is thought to be to free humans suffering in a wheel of death and rebirth.

In postmodernity, recognition of the _______ of worldviews tends to "relativize" and "privatize" all stories.

Socialism was not a movement until the postmodern period.

The primary aim of the academic study of religion is to determine which religious traditions are correct.

Religious experience must have a _______ frame of reference.