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REL 134 Week 5 Knowledge Check
1.
The founder of which of these Christian denominations was female?
Christian Science and the Foursquare Gospel Church
Unitarianism and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Unity and Scientology
Quaker (Society of Friends) and Unification Church
Concept: ALTERNATIVE PATHS
Mastery | 100% | Questions | · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
Materials on the concept
- Contemporary Paganism: Wicca and Druidism
- Scientology
- Theosophy
- Rastafarianism
- Baha’I
2.
One sign of a religious cult is that the movement
performs no social services for the larger society.
has a belief system that is syncretic.
takes all its rules from a book that is considered authoritative.
strictly regulates contact between its members and nonmembers.
3.
The word pagan comes from pagus, a Latin word that means
nature.
unbeliever.
circle.
countryside.
4.
Literally, Theosophy means
deep insight.
internal theory.
eternal philosophy.
divine wisdom.
5.
Baha’i emerged from
Christianity.
Judaism.
Islam.
Zoroastrianism.
6.
In Scientology, the state of full mental liberation is called
infinite.
open.
moksha.
clear.
Concept: SECULARISM
Mastery | 100% | Questions | · 7 · 8 · 9 |
Materials on the concept
- Secularism
7.
The desire for a separation of church and state came about as the result of
religious wars in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
greater travel as a result of mapmaking.
contact between Europe and non-Western cultures.
the thought of Chinese and Japanese philosophers.
8.
The view of religion as an outdated method for providing solutions to life’s problems was espoused by
technologism.
consumerism.
nationalism.
Communism.
9.
Living and thinking without reference to a religion is called
rationalism.
transcendentalism.
ecotourism.
secularism.
Concept: CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES
Mastery | 100% | Questions | · 10 · 11 |
Materials on the concept
- Eclectic Spirituality
- The Recurring Challenges of Change
10.
The Catholic Church has worked to accommodate itself to the modern world, as shown by
the Second Vatican Council in 1965.
the Council of Trent.
the refusal to ordain women as priests.
the continued use of traditional clothing.
11.
It is possible to see in the comic-book figure of Superman an underlying
pessimism.
cynicism.
messianism.
multiculturalism.