Deck 12: The Modern Search

Question 1

The first World Parliament of Religions was held in 1893 in

A) Calcutta.
B) Geneva.
C) Assisi.
D) Chicago.

Answer 1

Chicago.

Question 2

The leader who represented Hinduism at the first World Parliament of Religions was

A) Ananda Mai Ma.
B) Swami Prabhupada.
C) Swami Vivekananda.
D) Sri Ramakrishna.

Answer 2

Swami Vivekananda.

Question 3

The founder of which of these Christian denominations was female?

A) Christian Science and the Foursquare Gospel Church
B) Unitarianism and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
C) Unity and Scientology
D) Quaker (Society of Friends) and Unification Church

Answer 3

Christian Science and the Foursquare Gospel Church

Question 4

Gender-neutral prayers

A) have been introducedas a result of the influence from women's rights movement.
B) have been wellreceived by most religious groups.
C) were common a thousand years ago.
D) are a literal translation of biblical prayers.

Question 5

Which of the following is true of applied science?

A) It states that our universe emerged in a great explosion.
B) It has led to many practical benefits.
C) It employs hypotheses to further scientific knowledge.
D) It has developed theories to predict physical processes in the world.

Question 6

The desire for a separation of church and state came about as the result of

A) the religious wars in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
B) greater travel as a result of mapmaking.
C) contact between Europe and non-Western cultures.
D) the thought of Chinese and Japanese philosophers.

Question 7

The inevitability of conservative reaction to the onslaught of change is one way to understand the phenomenon called

A) agnosticism.
B) fundamentalism.
C) secularism.
D) globalism.

Question 8

_____ refers to the modern tendency to separate religion (which deals with the sacred) from everyday life.

A) Pacifism
B) Transcendentalism
C) Multiculturalism
D) Secularism

Question 9

The English biologist T. H. Huxleycoined the term _____, which is a concept often associated with a secular worldview.

A) agnosticism
B) theism
C) secularism
D) pacifism

Question 10

The view of religion as an outdated method for providing solutions to life's problems was espoused by

A) technologism.
B) consumerism.
C) nationalism.
D) Communism.

Question 11

James Morton, Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, has said that religion is an old word for the reality of relationship, and that the new word for that reality is

A) reverence.
B) ecology.
C) recollection.
D) tradition.

Question 12

The Catholic Church has worked to accommodate itself to the modern world, as shown by

A) the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
B) the Council of Trent.
C) the refusal to ordain women as priests.
D) the continued use of traditional clothing.

Question 13

The artist who created a Japanese garden and spent more than forty years painting pictures of it was

A) Vincent van Gogh.
B) Claude Monet.
C) Paul Cézanne.
D) Pablo Picasso.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true about the Scottish-born naturalist John Muir?

A) He demanded that beautiful regions that are important to the whole nation be protected.
B) He wrote books about using music for growth in spirituality.
C) He warned repeatedly about the use of pesticides.
D) He made close-to-the-earth architectural forms that are regarded as technically excellent.

Question 15

The key belief of people who embrace _____ is the interrelatedness of all elements in the universe.

A) multiculturalism
B) syncretism
C) the new world order
D) eclectic spirituality

Question 16

Abraham Maslow was a psychologist interested in spirituality, who talked about

A) inner travel.
B) dream insights.
C) peak experiences.
D) environmental sensitivity.

Question 17

It is possible to see in the comic-book figure Superman an underlying

A) pessimism.
B) cynicism.
C) messianism.
D) multiculturalism.

Question 18

A modern artist who has shown great sensitivity in the portrayal of flowers at very close range is

A) Louise Nevelson.
B) Georgia O'Keeffe.
C) Mark Rothko.
D) Richard Diebenkorn.

Question 19

French impressionist music, such as that of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, was often inspired by

A) the rhythms of the machine age.
B) the desire to express vitality and speed.
C) a longing for the music of the Middle Ages.
D) the sounds and appearances of nature.

Question 20

How does science view the universe, the earth, and human beings?

Question 21

What challenges does science give to religion?

Question 22

What challenges does religion give to science?

Question 23

What are some examples of religious ideas and images that can be found in popular music?

Question 24

How havewomen's rights movements changed religion? Which religions seem to be the most changed and which the least?

Question 25

Describe the variety of religious attitudes toward human sexuality. What changes in religious attitudes about this topic during the past century can you list?

Question 26

Communism has shown a number of parallels with religions. Please explain.

Question 27

What challenges does modern democratic capitalism bring to traditional religions?

Question 28

Describe the change in attitude toward animals that seems to have been occurring in the past 150 years. How will this influence current religions?