Deck 10: The Geography of Religion

Question 1

From what type of social context do animist traditions typically arise?

A) herding societies
B) agricultural societies
C) European colonies
D) hunter-gatherer societies

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What is NOT an animist tradition?

A) Native American bands
B) Anglo-American peoples
C) Tribal hunting groupings
D) Migrating indigenous groups

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The spread of main religions worldwide have driven animist traditions to peripheral and marginal lands. What is an example of these peripheral and marginal lands?

A) Desert
B) Tundra
C) Rainforest
D) all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What is NOT one of the religions originating in the Indic hearth region, centered on the Indus Valley?

A) Buddhism
B) Hinduism
C) Islam
D) Sikhism

Question 5

What is NOT one of the social changes that has made its imprint on the shifting rituals and customs making up Hinduism?

A) increasing size of population
B) urbanization
C) colonization
D) interaction with other religions

Question 6

Across India, many _____ became _____ to avoid debilitating and limiting caste designation.

A) Buddhists; Hindus
B) Hindus; Muslims
C) Hindus; Sikhs
D) Muslims; Hindus

Question 7

Both developing in northern India around the 6^th century, _____ emerged as a critical offshoot to _____.

A) Buddhism; Hinduism
B) Islam; Hinduism
C) Islam; Buddhism
D) Hinduism; Buddhism

Question 8

How did the influence of British colonialism specifically change social and ritual practices of southeast Asian Buddhists?

A) To resist conversion by missionaries, Buddhists incorporated some Christian aspects.
B) Buddhist monks encouraged the people to engage with sacred texts and ritual.
C) The Mahayana form of Buddhism emerged as out of resistance to British colonialism.
D) Buddhist meditation was taught to Christian proselytizers as a form of opposition.

Question 9

The ancient religion of _____ teaches nonviolence and honoring other forms of life, whereas _____ teaches social ethics that emphasize honoring of hierarchy, tradition, and stability.

A) Shintoism; Jainism
B) Hinduism; Buddhism
C) Jainism; Confucianism
D) Confucianism; Sikhism

Question 10

What has occurred along with various stages of globalization?

A) international migrants bringing their religion
B) diffusion of Asian religions worldwide
C) transformation of religious rituals and practices
D) all of these

Question 11

Why is the Semitic region in the Middle East a significant world religious site?

A) It is one of the world's agricultural hearths.
B) It contains sacred sites for all Abrahamic religions.
C) It is the location of the first urban civilizations.
D) It is a pivotal crossroads between world regions.

Question 12

What do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common?

A) They each have a central, sacred text of myths and stories
B) They share an origin in the Semitic region of the Middle East
C) They are monotheistic and associated with empires
D) all of these

Question 13

How did early Christianity spread across the Roman Empire?

A) by missionary caravans
B) along inland trade routes
C) by decree of Emperors
D) along oceanic trade routes

Question 14

How did Christianity spread worldwide starting in the 16^th century?

A) as part of European colonialism
B) through global popular culture
C) as part of Asian imperial conquest
D) through globalized trade routes

Question 15

What event marks the start of the Muslim calendar?

A) Muhammad's birthdate
B) when the Quran was written
C) when Muhammad fled from Mecca
D) when Muhammad returned to Mecca

Question 16

What was NOT one of the regions that made up part of the Islamic empire?

A) North Africa
B) Spain and France
C) Southeast Asia
D) Middle East

Question 17

In the Middle East, the Muslim sect of _____ dominates in numbers, but the _____ sect has significant clusters of adherents in Iran and parts of Iraq, Lebanon, and Bahrain.

A) Shiites; Sunni
B) secularists; fundamentalist
C) Sunnis; Shiite
D) universalists; non-universalist

Question 18

What is the majority church affiliation associated with the Bible Belt?

A) Mormonism
B) Baptists
C) Catholicism
D) Lutherans

Question 19

What is the major religion and sacred site of pilgrimage that make up the hajj?

A) Judaism and Jerusalem
B) Buddhism and Tibet
C) Catholicism and the Vatican
D) Islam and Mecca

Question 20

What is one of the contemporary dynamics impacting global religious life?

A) cultural globalization
B) geopolitical conflicts
C) socioeconomic differences
D) all of these