REL 134 Week 5 Knowledge Check

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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

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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

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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The view of religion as an outdated method for providing solutions to life’s problems was espoused by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

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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.