RELG 103 TEST 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Why do we study religion - Answers -- laws are made off of religious practices
- to understand each other
- to understand human being and to be better
What is it about the human experience that makes us want to believe in a "higher
power"? - Answers --to explain why bad things happen and why were here
- karma
- people like that god takes their sins
What is an ordinary human experience - Answers --routine
- reason through problems
But otherwise it depends on you
What are events that interrupt "normal" - Answers -birth, death, love, and evil
How do extraordinary events change us - Answers -they make us think and evaluate
our own lives and make us wonder about life
What is religious studies - Answers -beliefs, institutions, behaviors of religion, cross-
cultural compare and contrast prospectives
What is theology - Answers -critical study of the nature of the divine, science of divine
things, mixture of diciplines
What percent of the world believes in some kind of god - Answers -82%
How much of the world is christian - Answers -31.5%
How much of the worlds christians are in either Europe or north america - Answers -
57%
How much of the worlds christians are catholics - Answers -~50%
How much of the worlds christians are protestant - Answers -37%
How much of the worlds christians are orthodox - Answers -12%
How much of the world is islam - Answers -23.2%
How much of the world is unaffiliated - Answers -16.3%
How much of the world is hindu - Answers -15%
, How much of the world is buddhist - Answers -7.1%
How much of the world is part of a folk religion - Answers -5.9%
How much of the world is Bahai, judism, sikhism, shintoism, taoism etc. - Answers -
0.8%
How much of the world is jewish - Answers -0.2%
What does exclusive mean from a religious stand point - Answers -christianity is true
and other religions are faulse
What does inclusive mean from a religious stand point - Answers -christianity offers the
highest view; other religions are good but not the highest
What does mutuality mean from a religious stand point - Answers -all religions offer
good things; all are incomplete; no one religion is complete truth
What does coexistence mean from a religious stand point - Answers -christianity is the
fullness of truth; no final judgements about other religions; open to dialogue with all
What are other words for god - Answers -elohim, yahweh, adonai in hebrew
What are the signs that the hebrew bible had multiple authors - Answers -- various
manes for god
-multiple accounts of creation
- 2 variations of the flood
- several stories in genesis appear in more than one form
-abraham identifies sarah as his sister but it is his wife
- 2 accounts of god
- 2 accounts of abraham dealing with hagar and ishmael
What are the different hypotheses for more than one account - Answers --j (yahwist
source) written in southern kingdom
-e (elohist source) written in the northern kingdom of israel
-d (deuteronomist) written in jerusalem during a period of religious reform
-p (priestly source) written by a jewish priest in exile in babylon
What is the j source - Answers -colorful descriptions
God is described in human terms
Abraham argues over fate of sodom
What is the e source - Answers -elohim for god
No flood
Reflects problems of guilt and innocence
"fear of god"
Why do we study religion - Answers -- laws are made off of religious practices
- to understand each other
- to understand human being and to be better
What is it about the human experience that makes us want to believe in a "higher
power"? - Answers --to explain why bad things happen and why were here
- karma
- people like that god takes their sins
What is an ordinary human experience - Answers --routine
- reason through problems
But otherwise it depends on you
What are events that interrupt "normal" - Answers -birth, death, love, and evil
How do extraordinary events change us - Answers -they make us think and evaluate
our own lives and make us wonder about life
What is religious studies - Answers -beliefs, institutions, behaviors of religion, cross-
cultural compare and contrast prospectives
What is theology - Answers -critical study of the nature of the divine, science of divine
things, mixture of diciplines
What percent of the world believes in some kind of god - Answers -82%
How much of the world is christian - Answers -31.5%
How much of the worlds christians are in either Europe or north america - Answers -
57%
How much of the worlds christians are catholics - Answers -~50%
How much of the worlds christians are protestant - Answers -37%
How much of the worlds christians are orthodox - Answers -12%
How much of the world is islam - Answers -23.2%
How much of the world is unaffiliated - Answers -16.3%
How much of the world is hindu - Answers -15%
, How much of the world is buddhist - Answers -7.1%
How much of the world is part of a folk religion - Answers -5.9%
How much of the world is Bahai, judism, sikhism, shintoism, taoism etc. - Answers -
0.8%
How much of the world is jewish - Answers -0.2%
What does exclusive mean from a religious stand point - Answers -christianity is true
and other religions are faulse
What does inclusive mean from a religious stand point - Answers -christianity offers the
highest view; other religions are good but not the highest
What does mutuality mean from a religious stand point - Answers -all religions offer
good things; all are incomplete; no one religion is complete truth
What does coexistence mean from a religious stand point - Answers -christianity is the
fullness of truth; no final judgements about other religions; open to dialogue with all
What are other words for god - Answers -elohim, yahweh, adonai in hebrew
What are the signs that the hebrew bible had multiple authors - Answers -- various
manes for god
-multiple accounts of creation
- 2 variations of the flood
- several stories in genesis appear in more than one form
-abraham identifies sarah as his sister but it is his wife
- 2 accounts of god
- 2 accounts of abraham dealing with hagar and ishmael
What are the different hypotheses for more than one account - Answers --j (yahwist
source) written in southern kingdom
-e (elohist source) written in the northern kingdom of israel
-d (deuteronomist) written in jerusalem during a period of religious reform
-p (priestly source) written by a jewish priest in exile in babylon
What is the j source - Answers -colorful descriptions
God is described in human terms
Abraham argues over fate of sodom
What is the e source - Answers -elohim for god
No flood
Reflects problems of guilt and innocence
"fear of god"
