Deck 45: Religion and Society: Of Gods and Demons

Question 1

Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx were all ______.

A) theologians
B) nonreligious
C) clergymen
D) Christians

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Skip is a Protestant, Christian male who is attending a conference with thousands of other men who have pledged allegiance to living a Godly life. Skip is mostly likely attending a(n) ______ event.

A) Honor Guard
B) Scientology
C) Spanish Catholic
D) Promise Keeper

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In his last book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Emile Durkheim examined ______ religious practices.

A) primitive tribal
B) dominant political
C) reproductively complex
D) socially mundane

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Durkheim believed that human forces are the same as ______ forces.

A) spiritual
B) godly
C) moral
D) terminal

Question 5

Which of the following refers to diverse belief systems that share the idea that the world is inhabited and affected by supernatural spirits?

A) the Great Spirit
B) Taoism
C) ritualistic magic
D) animism

Question 6

Which religion is the oldest?

A) Judaism
B) Buddhism
C) Christianity
D) Islam

Question 7

For Durkheim, all religions contain ______.

A) skepticism
B) empiricism
C) evil
D) truth

Question 8

What most likely extinguished the childhood religious beliefs of Durkheim, Weber, and Marx?

A) The fervent religiosity of their parents
B) Interaction and socialization
C) The explanatory power of natural and social science
D) A desire to understand

Question 9

Which statement best summarizes how Durkheim, Weber, and Marx came to see sociology and religion?

A) The Protestant Reformation was critical for the birth of modern, Western society.
B) Sociology and religion are inherently opposed to one another.
C) Only by studying facts about religion can one truly understand the sociological imagination.
D) The basis of all religions is a rejection of societal values and norms.

Question 10

A significant contributor to the early development of the sociological imagination was ______.

A) obscurity
B) pantheism
C) urbanism
D) nonbelieving

Question 11

Define structural analysis.

Question 12

Explain Durkheim's assertion that all religions are the same. Do you agree?

Question 13

What is animism? How does the concept pertain to secularization of the world today?

Question 14

Briefly describe how the main founders of sociology each viewed religion.

Question 15

Explain the relationship between nonbelieving and the development of the sociological imagination.