Rel 101 Final Exam (Miami University) Questions And Answers Guaranteed Solutions.

Religion as a field of study - correct answers Is a discipline. Defined by an object of study, the sacred. Made up by multiple disciplines: Psychology, Sociology, Art, Literature, History. Egyptian Kinship - correct answers Changed the civilization from hunter gatherers to agriculturalists. Nile river created job specialization. Role of women became big (had control over contraception, and knew how to prepare food), as well as decided which men were to be the traders. Nile allowed transportation as well as trade. Increase in trade of luxury goods. Egyptians were buried with their possessions because they believed that they would be able to use them in the afterlife. Power Mystique - correct answers Obscurity of government with the use of religious symbols. Allowed leaders to have an advantage over those in which they ruled over. Marx - correct answers Believes that religion is created by man. Helps explain the unexplainable. Religions reflect the society in which they are created in. Berger - correct answers Purpose of religion is to cosmocize the world. Create order. Durkheim - correct answersMost important thing in the world is to sustain community. Describes the difference between sacred and profane. Things that hold the society together are sacred. Haidt - correct answers(Builds on Durkheim). Human beings are both individual and collective. People are different when they are alone and when they are involved in a group. Transcendence - correct answers*Think ladder* Human beings move from individual to collective. Profane is individual, sacred is being part of a group. Freud - correct answersEgo, Super Ego, ID. Privation, prohibition, frustration. Three categories of circumstance: Free from terror of nature, Fate, compensate you for restricting yourself to fit into society. Freud- Ego - correct answersNegotiates between what you do and what you want to do. Evolves your sense of self. Freud- ID - correct answersWant something but society stops you in order to exist with other beings. Freud- Super Ego - correct answers"I'd like to but I can't" Know the norms of society Dostoyevsky - correct answersMiracle, Mystery, and Authority. People are always looking for something or someone to follow, and someone to tell them what to do. Theodicy - correct answersThe idea that we can justify god's existence in evil, reconciling the idea of an all-good, all-powerful god with the existence of a suffering world. AKA difference between good and evil. Utopia - correct answersView of a perfect world. Ethics - correct answersRules that we use to view what is good, true, and beautiful relative to a utopian society. Church/Sect - correct answersChurch is obligatory- something you are born into. Sect is voluntary- must be admitted into. Soteriology - correct answersTheory of salvation. How one can be saved. Eschatology - correct answersView of how the wold should end. Idea of the afterlife. Ritual - correct answersSignifies through behavior Two qualities: strategic and situational. Three functions: Appropriates, Dichotomizes, and mediates Three stages: Beginning, Liminal, and end. Myth - correct answersSignifies through narrative. Signified+Signifier/Sign= myth Iconicity - correct answersSignifies through objects. Celebrity - correct answersSignifies through persona. Spectacle - correct answersSignifies through public display. Atheism - correct answersBelief that there is no god. Paine - correct answersOur ideas on how we should live in the world come from nature, ordinary social interactions, and our logical reasoning. He believes that there is no proof that god revealed himself to man, but if it were true, we trust someones integrity. Believes that not all religions are peaceful because it relies on the faith of other men. Survival of the fittest - correct answersNatural Selection (Darwin). Those who are best equipped to live in society, live. Ayn Rand - correct answersShould rely on reason not faith in terms of ethics. The grounds for our reasoning should be our rational self interest. Also believes in a Laissez-Faire economic system in which there is limited government regulation. Soros - correct answers Believed that the best way is to allow participants to pursue their own self interest with no restraint or oversight in the economy. Market fundamentalism. Basically a free market system. Singularity - correct answers Creation of super intelligence. Kurzweil. H+ - correct answersTranshumanism. The idea that humans and technology will eventually merge. Reflexivity - correct answers Critique against the notion of a free market. Idea that individuals will drive prices too high and make the economy unsustainable. Consumer Society - correct answers Planned obsolescence and distribution of goods. Wealth and resources are distributed through consumption of objects. Technocracy - correct answers Aristocracy is engineers and scientists. Society is based on technology. Theosophy - correct answers Co-founded by Blavatsky. God can be achieved through spiritual ecstasy. Must be enlightened by a divine wisdom. Scientology - correct answers Created by L. Ron Hubbard. Receive donations by being audited. Purpose is to move up in levels in order to rid alien spirits. Each level requires a donation of a certain amount of money. L. Ron Hubbard - correct answers Creator of scientology. Believes that you must sell yourself in order to be completely enlightened and "saved". Aleister Crowley - correct answers Founded Thelema. Was an occultist- was exclusive in their beliefs. Thelema - correct answers Founded by Crowley. A spiritual religion in which one is to discover "True Will