STRAIGHTERLINE RELIGION 101 FINAL
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Religions manifest eight possible elements: belief system, community, central myths,
ritual, ethics, characteristic emotional experiences, material expression, and -
✔✔Sacrednes
s
The belief that all is divine is called - ✔✔pantheism
__________________ argues that the existence of God cannot be proven. -
✔✔Agnosticis
m
Anthropologist ___________ believed that religion was rooted in spirit worship. -
✔✔E.
B. Tylor
___________ theorized that belief in a God or gods arises from the long-lasting
impressions made on adults by their childhood experiences. - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Rudolf Otto argued that religions emerge when people experience that aspect of reality
which is essentially mysterious; while ___________ believed that religion was a noble
human response to the complexity and depth of reality. - ✔✔Carl Gustav Jung
Religions express truth ___________. For example, water can represent spiritual
cleansing; the sun, health; a mountain, strength; and a circle, eternity. - ✔✔symbolically
In early religions, the most significant female deity was particularly associated with
___________ and motherhood and has been known by many names, such as Asherah,
Aphrodite, and Freia. - ✔✔fertility
When we look at the world's dominant religions, we see three basic orientations in their
conceptions and location of the sacred: sacramental, prophetic, and ___________. -
✔✔mystica
l
As an academic discipline, the field of religious studies is now more than ___________
years old. -
,✔✔200
Although there is no agreement on how to speak of ancient religious ways, they are
often inadequately referred to as traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, ___________,
primal, native, oral, and basic. - ✔✔nonliterate
Indigenous religions exist generally within ___________ cultures, in which every object
and act may have religious meaning. -
✔✔holistic
In many Native American religious traditions, there is little distinction between the
human and animal worlds. These native religions see everything in the universe as
being alive, a concept known as ___________. - ✔✔animism
Sacred time is "the time of ___________." Among the Koyukon people of the Arctic, it is
called "distant time," and it is the holy ancient past in which gods lived and worked.
Among Australian Aborigines it is often called Dreamtime, and it is the subject of much
of their highly esteemed art. - ✔✔eternity
___________ is the doorway through which the "other world" of gods and ancestors can
contact us and we can contact them. It is associated with the center of the universe and
can be constructed, often in a symbolic shape such as a circle or square. - ✔✔Sacred
space
Most indigenous religions have cosmic tales of their ___________. They frequently
speak of a High God and make little distinction between a god and an ancestor. -
✔✔origin
s
In native societies, everyday religious activity and practice are significant, because their
primary purpose is often to place individuals, families, and groups in "right
___________" with gods, ancestors, other human beings, and nature. -
✔✔relationships
Special rituals mark a person's entry into adulthood. In Native American religions, a
common ritual of early maturity is the "vision quest," or "___________." -
✔✔dream
quest
A ___________ is a rule that forbids specific behavior with regard to certain objects,
people, animals, days, or phases of life. -
✔✔taboo
A(n) ___________ acts as an intermediary between the visible, ordinary world and the
, spirit world. -
✔✔shaman
The culture that flourished in the Indus River valley before 2000 bce is named the
___________ culture. -
✔✔Harappa
The ancient scriptures of India are called the ___________. There are four basic text
collections: the Rig, the Yajur, the Sama, and the Atharva. - ✔✔Vedas
round 500 bce, Indian civilization experienced such widespread and important changes
that the period is called the ___________ Age. -
✔✔Axis
In the Upanishads, the term ___________ refers to the experience of the sacred within
nature and the external universe, while ___________ refers to the experience of the
sacred within oneself. Both terms may be used interchangeably. - ✔✔Brahman; Atman
The ___________ is part of a very long epic poem called the Mahabharata; it recalls
themes from the Upanishads. - ✔✔Bhagavad
Gita
Hinduism has a(n) ___________ system with five main social classes: brahmin (priest),
kshatriya (warrior-noble), vaishya (merchant), shudra (peasant), and dalit (untouchable).
- ✔✔caste
The word yoga means "___________." - ✔✔union
Shankara's belief that spiritual liberation was achieved when the individual
personally
came to understand the unity of all things is called ___________. -
✔✔monism
When linked together, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are often called the ___________. -
✔✔Trimurt
i
Mohandas Gandhi's use of ___________ techniques, including marches, hunger
strikes, talks, demonstrations, and publicity, was adopted by Martin Luther King Jr. to
help protest racial segregation in the United States. - ✔✔nonviolent
Siddhartha's encounters with an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a wandering holy
man, which prompted him to leave his luxurious and carefree life, are called the
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS
Religions manifest eight possible elements: belief system, community, central myths,
ritual, ethics, characteristic emotional experiences, material expression, and -
✔✔Sacrednes
s
The belief that all is divine is called - ✔✔pantheism
__________________ argues that the existence of God cannot be proven. -
✔✔Agnosticis
m
Anthropologist ___________ believed that religion was rooted in spirit worship. -
✔✔E.
B. Tylor
___________ theorized that belief in a God or gods arises from the long-lasting
impressions made on adults by their childhood experiences. - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Rudolf Otto argued that religions emerge when people experience that aspect of reality
which is essentially mysterious; while ___________ believed that religion was a noble
human response to the complexity and depth of reality. - ✔✔Carl Gustav Jung
Religions express truth ___________. For example, water can represent spiritual
cleansing; the sun, health; a mountain, strength; and a circle, eternity. - ✔✔symbolically
In early religions, the most significant female deity was particularly associated with
___________ and motherhood and has been known by many names, such as Asherah,
Aphrodite, and Freia. - ✔✔fertility
When we look at the world's dominant religions, we see three basic orientations in their
conceptions and location of the sacred: sacramental, prophetic, and ___________. -
✔✔mystica
l
As an academic discipline, the field of religious studies is now more than ___________
years old. -
,✔✔200
Although there is no agreement on how to speak of ancient religious ways, they are
often inadequately referred to as traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, ___________,
primal, native, oral, and basic. - ✔✔nonliterate
Indigenous religions exist generally within ___________ cultures, in which every object
and act may have religious meaning. -
✔✔holistic
In many Native American religious traditions, there is little distinction between the
human and animal worlds. These native religions see everything in the universe as
being alive, a concept known as ___________. - ✔✔animism
Sacred time is "the time of ___________." Among the Koyukon people of the Arctic, it is
called "distant time," and it is the holy ancient past in which gods lived and worked.
Among Australian Aborigines it is often called Dreamtime, and it is the subject of much
of their highly esteemed art. - ✔✔eternity
___________ is the doorway through which the "other world" of gods and ancestors can
contact us and we can contact them. It is associated with the center of the universe and
can be constructed, often in a symbolic shape such as a circle or square. - ✔✔Sacred
space
Most indigenous religions have cosmic tales of their ___________. They frequently
speak of a High God and make little distinction between a god and an ancestor. -
✔✔origin
s
In native societies, everyday religious activity and practice are significant, because their
primary purpose is often to place individuals, families, and groups in "right
___________" with gods, ancestors, other human beings, and nature. -
✔✔relationships
Special rituals mark a person's entry into adulthood. In Native American religions, a
common ritual of early maturity is the "vision quest," or "___________." -
✔✔dream
quest
A ___________ is a rule that forbids specific behavior with regard to certain objects,
people, animals, days, or phases of life. -
✔✔taboo
A(n) ___________ acts as an intermediary between the visible, ordinary world and the
, spirit world. -
✔✔shaman
The culture that flourished in the Indus River valley before 2000 bce is named the
___________ culture. -
✔✔Harappa
The ancient scriptures of India are called the ___________. There are four basic text
collections: the Rig, the Yajur, the Sama, and the Atharva. - ✔✔Vedas
round 500 bce, Indian civilization experienced such widespread and important changes
that the period is called the ___________ Age. -
✔✔Axis
In the Upanishads, the term ___________ refers to the experience of the sacred within
nature and the external universe, while ___________ refers to the experience of the
sacred within oneself. Both terms may be used interchangeably. - ✔✔Brahman; Atman
The ___________ is part of a very long epic poem called the Mahabharata; it recalls
themes from the Upanishads. - ✔✔Bhagavad
Gita
Hinduism has a(n) ___________ system with five main social classes: brahmin (priest),
kshatriya (warrior-noble), vaishya (merchant), shudra (peasant), and dalit (untouchable).
- ✔✔caste
The word yoga means "___________." - ✔✔union
Shankara's belief that spiritual liberation was achieved when the individual
personally
came to understand the unity of all things is called ___________. -
✔✔monism
When linked together, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva are often called the ___________. -
✔✔Trimurt
i
Mohandas Gandhi's use of ___________ techniques, including marches, hunger
strikes, talks, demonstrations, and publicity, was adopted by Martin Luther King Jr. to
help protest racial segregation in the United States. - ✔✔nonviolent
Siddhartha's encounters with an old man, a sick man, a corpse, and a wandering holy
man, which prompted him to leave his luxurious and carefree life, are called the
