Chapter 12 Questions and Answers
What is the key to Wallace's definition of religion?
Multiple choice question.
Wallace focuses on the distinction between the sacred and the profane.
Wallace focuses on groups of people—congregants—who gather together for worship.
Wallace focuses on the way...
Chapter 12 Questions and Answers
What is the key to Wallace's definition of religion?
Multiple choice question.
Wallace focuses on the distinction between the sacred and the profane.
Wallace focuses on groups of people—congregants—who gather together for worship.
Wallace focuses on the way religion provides instruments of social control.
Wallace focuses on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and
forces. - answer Wallace focuses on beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural
beings, powers, and forces.
For _____, the "sacred" was a domain set off from the ordinary, or the mundane
(profane).
Multiple choice question.
Durkheim
Malinowski
Turner
Wallace - answer Durkheim
What is animism?
Multiple choice question.
the trance state of a shaman who is about to enter the supernatural world
a belief in multiple gods
a belief in spiritual beings; the earliest form of religion, according to Tylor
a belief in a sacred impersonal force permeating the universe, residing in people,
animals, plants, and objects - answer a belief in spiritual beings; the earliest form of
religion, according to Tylor
Who asserted that the basic building block of all religious thought and ritual was a belief
in the soul?
Multiple choice question.
Bronislaw Malinowski
Victor Turner
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
Émile Durkheim - answer Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
What is the term for a type of religion that worships one single god?
Multiple choice question.
polarization
mechanization
polytheism
monotheism - answer monotheism
, Who offered a definition of religion that focused on belief and ritual concerned with
supernatural forces and beings?
Multiple choice question.
Victor Turner
Anthony Wallace
Sir E. B. Tylor
Émile Durkheim - answer Anthony Wallace
Which of the following statements best summarizes how Durkheim's approach to
religion differed from that taken by Wallace?
Multiple choice question.
Durkheim focused on the belief in the soul as the basic building block of all religious
thought.
Durkheim focused on beings, powers, and forces within the supernatural realm.
Durkheim stressed the collective, social, and shared nature of religion, the meanings it
embodies, and the emotions it generates.
Durkheim proposed an evolutionary scheme of stages through which societies progress
from "paganism" to Christianity. - answer Durkheim stressed the collective, social,
and shared nature of religion, the meanings it embodies, and the emotions it generates.
What is the term for the earliest form of religion, a belief in spiritual beings or souls
found in all things?
Multiple choice question.
animism
deism
spiritualism
polytheism - answer animism
What did Sir E. B. Tylor suggest was the origin of religion?
Multiple choice question.
worship of an eternal supreme being
dreaming, sleep, and trance, which led to a belief in souls
fear of nature
worship of multiple deities - answer dreaming, sleep, and trance, which led to a belief
in souls
What are the evolutionary stages of religion proposed by Tylor, listed in order from the
simplest and earliest to the most complex?
Multiple choice question.
polytheism, animism, and monotheism
magic, superstition, and science
monotheism, polytheism, and shamanism
animism, polytheism, and monotheism - answer animism, polytheism, and
monotheism
The concept of mana is used to explain
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