Exam 2: You Believe What

________ is the Hindu belief that each person has a duty to live morally,although doing so may look different for each person depending on their caste.

Disputes over the forms and content of religious rituals and the structure of services is called

Faith healing,speaking in tongues,and prophecy are most likely to be religious practices found among

In the United States today,Christianity includes approximately ___________ different denominations.

For Buddhists,Buddha is worshipped as God.

Just over half of the world's population belongs to only two religions,Islam and Christianity.

Which of the following is not among the core beliefs shared by most Christians,regardless of their denomination?

Which of the following is not one of the five ritual pillars of Islam?

Despite outsiders' impressions that Hindus worship many gods and goddesses,Hindus themselves believe that each of these gods and goddesses are only aspects of one God.

Which of the following denominations did not break away from the Roman Catholic Church?

_____________ Judaism encourages its members to follow the teachings of the Torah and Talmud but allows for reinterpretation of these traditions in light of contemporary experience.

When an individual does not belong to any single religion or hold to specific sets of religious beliefs and practices but instead picks and chooses those which make sense to him or her,they are engaging in what Robert Bellah and his colleagues termed

Mainline Protestants represent a distinct subset of Protestant Christians because

Which of the following is true about religious rituals?

While all fundamentalists can be categorized as Evangelicals,not all Evangelicals can be categorized as fundamentalists.

Roman Catholic rituals or sacraments include(s):

For Jews,what one believes about God,the Torah,etc.,is more important than what one does in terms of ritual practice.

________________ is the group of Muslims that was founded in the United States by African Americans in the early 20th century.

Despite the diverse numbers and types of Black Protestant denominations,Black Protestants tend to be more alike in their social and religious attitudes than are white Protestants.

Which of the following religions is the largest of the world's religions?