INTRO TO WORLD RELIGIONS EXAM 1
– AMERITECH QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED ANSWERS. EXPERT
VERIFIED FOR GUARANTEED PASS.
How is Religion defined? - ANS A system of beliefs and moral behavior
Faith in God
Worship of supernatural beings
What are the Upanishads? - ANS Religious ancient text of spiritual teaching and ideas of
Hinduism
What goal did Upanishads promote? - ANS Release at-man from endless cycle of
reincarnation. Help reach highest state of being
How do the Untouchables get their name? - ANS So IMPURE that they could not participate
in Hindu society; OUTCASTS
What is suttee? - ANS Practice whereby a widow mounted the funeral pyre of her late
husband so as to accompany him to the afterlife
What is dharma? - ANS a Core belief. Proper performance of religious DUTIES. "Okay"
behaviors
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, What political method did Gandhi employ? - ANS Holding on to Truth (SATYAGRAHA)
and Passive resistance (exposing oppressors to truth of their evil)
Role astrologers play in Hindu rites of passage? - ANS Consultants; Called to establish most
auspicious (favorable) day, sometimes hour, for the three Samskaras (Sacred thread, marriage,
and funerary rites)
What is murti? - ANS an IDOL of Hindu God Ganesha; consecrated image used by gods to
INTERACT with worshipers
What are the eight limbs of Yoga? - ANS 1. Yama (abstention from violence, lying, sex, greed)
2. Niyama (observe purity, content, rigor, study, love of god)
3. Asana (body postures)
4. Pranayama (measured breathing)
5. Pratyahara (withdrawal from use of sense organs)
6. Dharana (concentration developed by focus on single object)
7. dhyana (meditation)
8. samadhi (union with brahman)
How might Hindu patients frame illness and recovery? - ANS Blame on KARMA (body sick,
soul is not)
Illness toward following instruction
Rely on dharma principles to respond
What are the Four sights? - ANS What the Buddha saw:
OLD Man
SICK Man
CORPSE (death)
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– AMERITECH QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED ANSWERS. EXPERT
VERIFIED FOR GUARANTEED PASS.
How is Religion defined? - ANS A system of beliefs and moral behavior
Faith in God
Worship of supernatural beings
What are the Upanishads? - ANS Religious ancient text of spiritual teaching and ideas of
Hinduism
What goal did Upanishads promote? - ANS Release at-man from endless cycle of
reincarnation. Help reach highest state of being
How do the Untouchables get their name? - ANS So IMPURE that they could not participate
in Hindu society; OUTCASTS
What is suttee? - ANS Practice whereby a widow mounted the funeral pyre of her late
husband so as to accompany him to the afterlife
What is dharma? - ANS a Core belief. Proper performance of religious DUTIES. "Okay"
behaviors
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, What political method did Gandhi employ? - ANS Holding on to Truth (SATYAGRAHA)
and Passive resistance (exposing oppressors to truth of their evil)
Role astrologers play in Hindu rites of passage? - ANS Consultants; Called to establish most
auspicious (favorable) day, sometimes hour, for the three Samskaras (Sacred thread, marriage,
and funerary rites)
What is murti? - ANS an IDOL of Hindu God Ganesha; consecrated image used by gods to
INTERACT with worshipers
What are the eight limbs of Yoga? - ANS 1. Yama (abstention from violence, lying, sex, greed)
2. Niyama (observe purity, content, rigor, study, love of god)
3. Asana (body postures)
4. Pranayama (measured breathing)
5. Pratyahara (withdrawal from use of sense organs)
6. Dharana (concentration developed by focus on single object)
7. dhyana (meditation)
8. samadhi (union with brahman)
How might Hindu patients frame illness and recovery? - ANS Blame on KARMA (body sick,
soul is not)
Illness toward following instruction
Rely on dharma principles to respond
What are the Four sights? - ANS What the Buddha saw:
OLD Man
SICK Man
CORPSE (death)
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