STRAIGHTERLINE RELIGION 101 FINAL
COMPLETE EXAM SOLUTION WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY GRADED A
Religions manifest eight possible elements: belief system, community,
central myths, ritual, ethics, characteristic emotional experiences, material
expression, and - CORRECT ANSWER>>Sacredness
The belief that all is divine is called - CORRECT ANSWER>>pantheism
__________________ argues that the existence of God cannot be proven.
- CORRECT ANSWER>>Agnosticism
Anthropologist ___________ believed that religion was rooted in spirit
worship. - CORRECT ANSWER>>E. B. Tylor
,___________ theorized that belief in a God or gods arises from the long-
lasting impressions made on adults by their childhood experiences. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>Sigmund Freud
Rudolf Otto argued that religions emerge when people experience that
aspect of reality which is essentially mysterious; while ___________
believed that religion was a noble human response to the complexity and
depth of reality. - CORRECT ANSWER>>Carl Gustav Jung
Religions express truth ___________. For example, water can represent
spiritual cleansing; the sun, health; a mountain, strength; and a circle,
eternity. - CORRECT ANSWER>>symbolically
In early religions, the most significant female deity was particularly
associated with ___________ and motherhood and has been known by
many names, such as Asherah, Aphrodite, and Freia. - CORRECT
ANSWER>>fertility
When we look at the world's dominant religions, we see three basic
orientations in their conceptions and location of the sacred: sacramental,
prophetic, and ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER>>mystical
As an academic discipline, the field of religious studies is now more than
___________ years old. - CORRECT ANSWER>>200
Although there is no agreement on how to speak of ancient religious ways,
they are often inadequately referred to as traditional, aboriginal,
,indigenous, tribal, ___________, primal, native, oral, and basic. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>nonliterate
Indigenous religions exist generally within ___________ cultures, in which
every object and act may have religious meaning. - CORRECT
ANSWER>>holistic
In many Native American religious traditions, there is little distinction
between the human and animal worlds. These native religions see
everything in the universe as being alive, a concept known as
___________. - CORRECT ANSWER>>animism
Sacred time is "the time of ___________." Among the Koyukon people of
the Arctic, it is called "distant time," and it is the holy ancient past in which
gods lived and worked. Among Australian Aborigines it is often called
Dreamtime, and it is the subject of much of their highly esteemed art. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>eternity
___________ is the doorway through which the "other world" of gods and
ancestors can contact us and we can contact them. It is associated with the
center of the universe and can be constructed, often in a symbolic shape
such as a circle or square. - CORRECT ANSWER>>Sacred space
Most indigenous religions have cosmic tales of their ___________. They
frequently speak of a High God and make little distinction between a god
and an ancestor. - CORRECT ANSWER>>origins
, In native societies, everyday religious activity and practice are significant,
because their primary purpose is often to place individuals, families, and
groups in "right ___________" with gods, ancestors, other human beings,
and nature. - CORRECT ANSWER>>relationships
Special rituals mark a person's entry into adulthood. In Native American
religions, a common ritual of early maturity is the "vision quest," or
"___________." - CORRECT ANSWER>>dream quest
A ___________ is a rule that forbids specific behavior with regard to certain
objects, people, animals, days, or phases of life. - CORRECT
ANSWER>>taboo
A(n) ___________ acts as an intermediary between the visible, ordinary
world and the spirit world. - CORRECT ANSWER>>shaman
The culture that flourished in the Indus River valley before 2000 bce is
named the ___________ culture. - CORRECT ANSWER>>Harappa
The ancient scriptures of India are called the ___________. There are four
basic text collections: the Rig, the Yajur, the Sama, and the Atharva. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>Vedas
round 500 bce, Indian civilization experienced such widespread and
important changes that the period is called the ___________ Age. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>Axis
