Deck 14: New Religious Movements

Question 1

What does the following Key Term mean:
-Baha'u'llah

Answer 1

(1817-1892) The founder of Baha'i

Question 2

What does the following Key Term mean:
-Book of Mormon

Answer 2

The holiest scriptures of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Question 3

What does the following Key Term mean:
-Mary Baker Eddy

Answer 3

(1821-1910) The founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist.

Question 4

What does the following Key Term mean:
-Joseph Smith

Question 5

What does the following Key Term mean:
-Wicca

Question 6

According to the reading, many new religious movements that we see now began in the ________ century.

A) seventh
B) seventeenth
C) fourteenth
D) nineteenth

Question 7

The "Second Great Awakening" in America launched which of these into the prominent position they attained during the rest of the century?

A) Baptists
B) Lutherans
C) Quakers
D) Catholics

Question 8

Some new religions, such as ________ and Christian Science, drew inspiration from New England Transcendentalism and Ralph Waldo Emerson's fusion of idealism, pantheism, and mysticism.

A) New Thought
B) Scientology
C) Bahia
D) Vodou

Question 9

In the last one hundred years or so, ________ (of) new religions have cropped up around the world.

A) hundreds
B) only a few
C) thousands
D) at most five hundred

Question 10

Who was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

A) Mary Baker Eddy
B) Joseph Smith
C) Jonathan Edwards
D) Brigham Young

Question 11

What sacred text recounts the history of the ancient lost tribes of Israel who migrated to America, and of Christ, who, after his resurrection, came to America later to restore true Christianity?

A) The Theophany
B) The Book of Mormon
C) Doctrines and Covenants
D) The Pearl of Great Price

Question 12

Which of these is not considered a New Religious Movement?

A) Seventh-day Adventist
B) Jehovah's Witnesses
C) Pentecostalism
D) Paganism

Question 13

Who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist?

A) Mary Baker Eddy
B) Joseph Smith
C) Jonathan Edwards
D) Brigham Young

Question 14

Which of these best describes the selection "Science and Health, Recapitulation" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures?

A) a text of parables
B) a series of questions and answers
C) a biography
D) vignettes on morality

Question 15

The Watchtower Society is also known as

A) Theosophy.
B) Christian Science.
C) Jehovah's Witnesses.
D) The Disciples.

Question 16

Baha'i was founded in Iran by Baha'u'llah, who claimed that he was the latest manifestation of ________.

A) God
B) Buddha
C) Jesus
D) Muhammad

Question 17

The duty of Baha'i is to cultivate the values of ________ in their personal lives and to work toward peace in the world.

A) unity
B) truth
C) morality
D) humanism

Question 18

Which of these is not stressed by Baha'i?

A) monogamy
B) loyalty to legitimately established governments
C) traditional gender roles
D) peaceful conflict resolution

Question 19

According to the Harris Poll "What People Do and Do Not Believe," how many Americans polled believe in reincarnation-that they were once another person?

A) 5 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 35 percent

Question 20

As a form of modern witchcraft, Wicca is a ________ religion that emphasizes sacred powers and divinities inherent in the natural world and in every person.

A) animistic
B) polytheistic
C) monotheistic
D) nature

Question 21

According to the text, _________ is the power to control events through supernatural or mysterious means.

A) superstition
B) magic
C) ESP
D) divination

Question 22

Which of these is not listed as a New Religious Movement in the text?

A) Transcendentalism
B) Wicca
C) Hare Krishna
D) Meyerism

Question 23

Which sacred text contains these words? "And now it came to pass that there were a great multitude gathered together, of the people of Nephi, round about the temple which was in the land Bountiful. . . ."

A) Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
B) The Book of Mormon
C) The Pearl of Great Price
D) The Promised Day Is Come

Question 24

Whose first pamphlet on Christian Science was copyrighted in 1870?

A) Baha'u'llah
B) Joseph Smith
C) Mirza Husayn-'Ali
D) Mary Baker Eddy

Question 25

According to the Harris Poll, "What People Do and Do Not Believe," how many Americans polled believe in the devil?

A) 10 percent
B) 60 percent
C) 35 percent
D) 25 percent

Question 26

In America, periods of revival have seen the rise of Spiritualism, Latter-Day Saints, the Holiness Churches, New Thought, Christian Science, and Pentecostalism.

Question 27

New Age religions often combined many elements into a single worldview.

Question 28

The angel Gabriel revealed the Book of Mormon in the eighteenth century.

Question 29

Joseph Smith declared that everything in the world that we think is material is actually spiritual.

Question 30

For Christian Scientists, the Bible and Science and Health are scripture.

Question 31

The Baha'i Faith dates to the sixteenth century.

Question 32

For Mary Baker Eddy, the material world is an illusion; none of it is real, including human frailty, disease, sin, and mortality.

Question 33

Jehovah's Witnesses were founded in 1881.

Question 34

Baha'i was founded in the 1860s in India.

Question 35

Baha'i scriptures consist of the writings of the Messengers, the most revered being those of Baha'u'llah and a previous prophet known as the Bab.

Question 36

According to a Harris Poll, 82 percent of American adults believe in God.

Question 37

Modern Wiccans are Satan worshippers who talk to demons, hold black masses, cast evil spells, and do other bad things with magic.

Question 38

Some Wiccans worship the Goddess and see the practice as a way to assert their freedom and equality in societies dominated by men.

Question 39

Wicca has four sacred texts, which help practitioners follow a strict orthodoxy.

Question 40

The great monolith in the West that was traditional religion began to crack in the Renaissance; its erosion accelerated after the Scientific Revolution, and modernity weakened its authority and credibility even further.

Question 41

The beliefs and practices of some new religions center on occult or psychic phenomena.

Question 42

The Shakers designed their faith around communal life.

Question 43

Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Missouri.

Question 44

Of those polled in the Harris Poll "What People Do and Do Not Believe," 85 percent believe in astrology.

Question 45

Maharishi Mahesh founded a center for Transcendental Meditation in 1957.

Question 46

Explore modern witchcraft in the form of Wicca and explain why it might have become popular in the twentieth century, especially in light of feminist movements.

Question 47

What is the ultimate goal of Baha'i? How do these goals resonate with some of the other religions we have studied?

Question 48

Describe the founding of Mormonism and its founder, Joseph Smith.

Question 49

What are the beliefs of Mary Baker Eddy that contribute to her advice to avoid conventional medicine?

Question 50

How does modern Wicca differ from the stereotypical view of witches and witchcraft?