Introduction to Religion- Final:
Straighterline Exam Questions And Correct
Answers
The belief that all elements of the world are inhabited by spirits or a spirit is called -
answer✔✔animism
The disciple of Freud who ultimately rebelled against him was - answer✔✔Carl Jung
The Scottish anthropologist who was the author of the multivolume study of mythology called
The Golden Bough was - answer✔✔James Frazer
about 100 written works that discuss the nature of spiritual reality - answer✔✔The Upanishads
Compared with indigenous religions, today's dominant religions are - answer✔✔much younger
The word that means "liberation" is - answer✔✔moksha
Joseph Campbell, in his books, has strongly recommended reading the myths of many religions.
Doing this, he says, - answer✔✔shows us the symbolic meaning that underlies religious stories
The French thinker who sought to go behind and beyond ordinary interpretations, to in essence
"deconstruct" texts and other phenomena in search of fresh ways of seeing, was -
answer✔✔Derrida
Traditional Pueblo peoples live in - answer✔✔multistoried villages
Wilhelm Schmidt, an Austrian philologist, argued that human beings originally believed in -
answer✔✔one God
Many African religions tell how the High God created the world and then -
answer✔✔abandoned it
A universal religious symbol that is circular, or that blends a circle and a square, is called a -
answer✔✔mandala
devotional ritual - answer✔✔Puja
The city of India considered most sacred by the Hindus is - answer✔✔Benares (Varanasi)
Maori religion is part of the cultural rebirth in - answer✔✔New Zealand
often exist regarding sex, marriage, and birth - answer✔✔Taboos
Study of the divine - answer✔✔Theology meaning
The American thinker who argued that religion brought a new vitality to people's lives was -
answer✔✔William James
Study of the soul - answer✔✔Psychology meaning
The absolute or divine reality is known as - answer✔✔Brahman
The prince who is counseled by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita is - answer✔✔Arjuna
Primarily involved offerings to nature gods at fire altars - answer✔✔Vedic worship
The teachings of indigenous religions are typically conveyed by all of the following except -
answer✔✔Sacred scripture
The god Rama is frequently paired with - answer✔✔Sita
The Bhagavad Gita is part of a long Indian epic poem called - answer✔✔Mahabharata
The goddess of good luck is - answer✔✔Lakshmi
Hinduism is the majority religion of - answer✔✔Nepal
Krishna is considered an incarnation of - answer✔✔Vishnu
a story that is psychologically meaningful and may be either historically true or not. -
answer✔✔Myth means
One religion that particularly values and makes use of silence is - answer✔✔Zen Buddhism
The transmission of indigenous religions is made more difficult by the fact that teachings are
often conveyed in ways that are - answer✔✔relatively impermanent
A wandering holy man - answer✔✔sannyasin
The approach that especially makes use of reason to find answers to religious questions is -
answer✔✔Philosophy
Theyoga of meditation - answer✔✔Raja yoga
Sigmund Freud, when analyzing the origin of religion, emphasized - answer✔✔the human need
for psychological security
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