REL 2300 Midterm Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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REL 2300 Midterm Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers
Question: The word "Religion" as defined by Fredrick Streng is usually
interpreted by scholars to mean?
Answer: Means to Ultimate Transformation


Question:
Beliefs enacted and made real through ceremonies, certain objects or
specialized locations or buildings and are repeated define the characteristic
of...
Answer: Ritual


Question:
The form of sacred reality manifested in the singular form is called?
Answer: Monotheism


Question:
To understand sacred as Transcendent is to believe
Answer: That it exists outside the material universe


Question:
Ritual is defined as something that is predictable and repeated rather than
spontaneous?
Answer: True


Question:

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The term that is often applied to the selective insistence on parts of a religious
tradition and highly negative views of other religions is...
Answer: Fundamentalism


Question:
Literally meaning "Not God", agnostic holds that there is no God
Answer: False


Question:
Which does NOT describe a part of the realm of sacred...
Answer: Prophetic


Question:
A non-relational, non-sensory experience of that which is totally outside the
self is...
Answer: Numinous


Question:
Marie St. Vincent developed the theory of Comparative Religion?
Answer: False


Question:
In the four stages of life, students and enunciates are:
Answer: to be celibate


Question:
Nonviolence or nonharm is called samsara.