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thLiving Religions 8
Edition Mary Pat
Fisher
Test Bank
, CHAPTER 1: Religious Responses
Fill in the blank
1. The word religion probably means to .
ANSWER: tie back or to tie again
2. What common goal do all religions share? .
ANSWER: Tying people back to something behind the surface of life—a greater reality
3. Those who claim they worship the only true deity are known as .
ANSWER: exclusivists
4. The intuitive ability to perceive spiritual truths directly beyond the senses is typically called
.
ANSWER: mysticism
5. The discipline, which seeks to understand and compare religious patterns from around theworld, is
known as
.
ANSWER: comparative religion
6. Personal, noninstitutionalized patterns of prayer, meditation, or direct experience of aninexplicable
presence
may be referred to as .
ANSWER: spirituality
7. Religions that worship the deity in a singular form are known as .
ANSWER: monotheistic
8. Like religion, searches for universal principles that explain thefacts
of nature.
ANSWER: science
9. A narrative that uses concrete symbols in order to convey abstract ideas is known as a(n)
. ANSWER: allegory
10. holds that scientific discoveries of the complexities of life areproof of
the existence of a creator.
ANSWER: intelligent design theory
11. Symbolic stories which communities use to explain the universe and their place within itare known
as
.
ANSWER: myth
12. Describe at least two changes feminists are seeking to make within patriarchal religions.
/
ANSWERS: Trying to define their own identity rather than having identities defined by others;bringing
to light the histories of women leaders; challenging patriarchal religious institutions that have excluded
women from active religious participation; challenging gender-exclusive language in holy texts;
challenging authoritarian masculine images of the divine; questioning the narrows ways in which
religious inspiration has been institutionalized; insisting that religions be actively engaged in insuring
human survival; insisting that
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