DSST Introduction To World Religions

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1. Confucian concept of 'li'

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2. Not one of the holy cities to Muslims
Is of little importance in achieving nirvana; Ritual sacrifice plays a minor role in Theravada Buddhism.
Saudi Arabia; The Wahhabi movement is a conservative movement within Islam and controls Saudi Arabia through its connection to the ruling family.
Angels - heaven - and hell
Baghdad; Baghdad was an important center of Islamic power during the caliphates.


3. Who united the Israelites into a single nation?
Ended the practice of indulgences
David
God's goodness can heal illness as well as sin
Shinto


4. The basic teachings of Islam are set down in the...
Jewish mysticism
Tantras of Tibetan Buddhism
Five Pillars.
Asoka; Asoka - a ruler of the Maurya dynasty in India in the third century B.C.E. - converted to Buddhism and sent missionaries to convert the people of his huge empire. As a result - Buddhism is the predominant religion of Asia.


5. The Sufi movement was a reaction against...
Both the Pentateuch and all oral and written teachings of Judaism
Purim
The growing materialism of Islam around the 800s
Marriage for the clergy


6. While Westerners may think of yoga as exercise - Hindus consider Yoga primarily as a way to...
Disappeared after the Assyrians captured Israel
Right understanding - Right speech - Right livelihood; The steps of the Eightfold Path are right views - right thoughts - right speech - right action - right livelihood - right effort - right mindfulness - and right concentration.
The sun goddess - believed to be the direct ancestor of the Japanese emperor - and a very important deity in Shinto.
Connect with Brahman


7. Buddhism's 'middle path' is best explained as a way of life that...
Is neither a life of pleasure nor one of self-denial
Recognize when a boy and a girl are considered adults in Judaism.
The teachings of Buddha - or religious truth.
Marriage for the clergy


8. Torah
Has no set list of beliefs that followers must accept
Reconcile Aristotle's work with their religions.
Female and male; Yin represents the female principle and earth. It is passive and dark. Yang represents the male principle and heaven. It is action - heat - and light. Together - they represent harmony.
Both the Pentateuch and all oral and written teachings of Judaism


9. Religion that does not include fasting.
Zoroastrianism
Offered a spiritual approach to life
Episcopal
The holy scripture of Nichiren Buddhism


10. The Church of England/Anglican Church was a compromise that resulted in...
David
Protestant doctorine but Catholic ritual
Belief that God will save the world from its sins by sending a messiah
While delaying their own entrance into nirvana


11. Muslims believe that almsgiving is...
Is neither a life of pleasure nor one of self-denial
Returning to Allah what is his
Icons
French Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin


12. A bodhisattva...
The role of its clergy; Shi'a has a clerical hierarchy.
Helps others to find nirvana
The Trinity
Were political rulers; The caliphs were considered successors to Muhammad - but after the first four - caliphs were political - rather than both political and religious - leaders


13. Conflict over Muhammad's successor led to...

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14. The Nicene Creed ended the Arian division within the early Christian Church by reaffirming...
Neolithic Revolution; The Neolithic Revolution marks the change from hunting and gathering to settled farming as a way of life. Groups developed religions to appeal to the deities in nature for help.
Jews; This is the promise that Yahweh made to Abraham
The struggle within a Muslim to live a good life
That Jesus was both human and divine; Arius taught that Jesus was not equal with God the Father and eternal. The Emperor Constantine called the Council of Nicea to deal with the issue - which was dividing the early Church.


15. The ten lost tribes of Israel...
Disappeared after the Assyrians captured Israel
Were political rulers; The caliphs were considered successors to Muhammad - but after the first four - caliphs were political - rather than both political and religious - leaders
It removes the stain of original sin
Eating pork


16. The Diaspora began...
Abraham
Judaism; Christianity; Islam
A group's identification with an animal - which is a totem
After the Assyrians destroyed Israel; The Jewish Diaspora began after the destruction of the kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in the 8th century B.C.E.


17. The Hare Krishna movement developed from...
Its members pray together without priests and with little ritual
Meditation - Nonviolence - Self-Denial
Hinduism
Judaism


18. What is taboo for Jews?
Officials were worried that Buddhism's popularity would affect people's loyalty to the government
Eating pork
Salvation came as a gift from God
Monasticism


19. What statement is true about the Indian caste system?
The caste system is both religious and social in nature.
Is as much a cultural designation as a religious one
Orthodox branch; Orthodox Jews conform most closely to the tenets of Judaism as revealed by God. They are not concerned with adapting Judaism to the world outside of the Jewish community.
Episcopalianism


20. Sufism is characterized by...
Neither has priests. Neither Jewish rabbis nor Muslim imans are priests; both are teachers and leaders of services - which is not the same as a priest whose role is to make sacrifices.
Helps others to find nirvana
Experiencing a feeling of oneness with Allah; Sufism is a mystical movement within Islam that is characterized by asceticism.
Guides to the spirit world. Shamans functioned - and still function - in religions based on nature and spirit worship.


21. Mahayana Buddhists believe that Gautama Buddha was not one of the following...
Monasticism
The first collection of Jewish laws
Hinduism
The representation of an eternal Buddha; one of many Buddhas


22. Huguenots
Communion
French Protestants who followed the teachings of John Calvin
Allowed subject peoples to practice their own religions
Use of Latin for the Bible and for church services; One of the changes of the Reformation was the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages and their use in church services. The Roman Catholic Church continued to use Latin for church service


23. Ark of the Covenant.

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24. Ka'bah
Jewish mysticism
The caste system is both religious and social in nature.
The Islamic concept of the community of Muslim believers
Thomas Aquinas


25. Some authorities do not consider Confucianism a religion primarily because it does not include...
It has aspects of African religions as well as Islam; Voodoo has elements of Roman Catholicism - not Islam - mixed with traditional African religions.
Things like ambition - wealth - and power keep people from their real purpose in life
Female and male; Yin represents the female principle and earth. It is passive and dark. Yang represents the male principle and heaven. It is action - heat - and light. Together - they represent harmony.
Any gods


26. How do Mahayana Buddhists and Theravada Buddhists view Gautama?
An afterlife; Jews believe that there is an afterlife - but it does not have the physical description that Christian and Islamic heaven and hell have. Jews focus on living a good life according to God's laws rather than on punishment and reward after
Both branches of Buddhism believe that Gautama Buddha is one of many Buddhas; Theravada Buddhists see Gautama as a saint and great teacher and Mahayana Buddhists see him as a savior who helps others to enlightenment.
It taught people to accept the status quo
Xun-zi


27. What was not a result of the Council of Trent - which was convened during what is known as the Counter-Reformation?
Ended the practice of indulgences
Householder
Is of little importance in achieving nirvana; Ritual sacrifice plays a minor role in Theravada Buddhism.
The Christian belief that Jesus was the messiah


28. In Hinduism - ahimsa is the principle of...
Anglicans; Thomas Cranmer - who was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury and a leader of the English Protestant Reformation - wrote the 'Book of Common Prayer -' which remains the official liturgy of the Anglican communion of churches.
The Talmud is the word of Yahweh
Confucianism
Nonviolence


29. The major issue between popes and rulers during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was...
Enter the state of nirvana - or enlightenment
The urge for spontaneity should be controlled; Taoism taught that spontaneous action that arose from being free of worldly concerns and open to the Tao - or workings of the universe - was good.
Who would appoint bishops
Asoka; Asoka - a ruler of the Maurya dynasty in India in the third century B.C.E. - converted to Buddhism and sent missionaries to convert the people of his huge empire. As a result - Buddhism is the predominant religion of Asia.


30. The Hasidic movement arose from the teachings of...
Use of Latin for the Bible and for church services; One of the changes of the Reformation was the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages and their use in church services. The Roman Catholic Church continued to use Latin for church service
Judaism
Baal Shem Tov
Baghdad; Baghdad was an important center of Islamic power during the caliphates.


31. Hinduism differs from Buddhism in Hinduism's acceptance of...
The caste system.
Improve the lives of the poor through political activism
Modern Iraq; A theocracy is a government in which the power and authority comes either because the ruler is considered a god (Egypt under the pharaohs) or a representative of God on earth (John Calvin's Geneva and Massachusetts Bay).
Religious practice of ancient Egyptians


32. What statement accurately describes Jewish worship?
Buddhism; Confucianism; Taoism
Moksha
Rabbis - like priests - lead ritual sacrifice during the liturgy.
Roman Catholicism


33. The supremacy of the pope as the head of the Roman Catholic Church...

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34. The Wahhabi movement took control of the area that became which of the following nations?
What Allah said to Muhammad
Emphasized obedience to God's law
Roman Catholicism
Saudi Arabia; The Wahhabi movement is a conservative movement within Islam and controls Saudi Arabia through its connection to the ruling family.


35. The Vedanta system of Hinduism is based on the...
A person who is not sure whether there is a supreme being or not
Ahura Mazda
A better birth in the next cycle of rebirth - life - and death
Upanishads


36. Unlike most Protestant denominations - Roman Catholics...
Monasticism
A supreme being
Rely on both the Bible and Church traditions as sources of truth
Meng-zi reinforced Confucius's teaching that people were innately good - whereas Xun-zi taught that people were innately evil.


37. In what deities do both good and evil co-exist?
Judaism - Christianity - and Islam
Offered a spiritual approach to life
Ahura Mazda
Loyalty


38. The Shi'a sect of Islam emphasizes...

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39. What is the most important holy day in the Christian calendar?

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40. A definition of religion would include what elements?
An afterlife; Jews believe that there is an afterlife - but it does not have the physical description that Christian and Islamic heaven and hell have. Jews focus on living a good life according to God's laws rather than on punishment and reward after
Enlightenment
Ritual; A code of moral conduct; An afterlife
Judaism; Islam


41. Shari'a deals with...
Required obedience to a set of moral behaviors
Shinto
Ecumenism.
Religious conduct; commercial transactions; political actions; private life


42. What is the most accurate definition of religion?
The urge for spontaneity should be controlled; Taoism taught that spontaneous action that arose from being free of worldly concerns and open to the Tao - or workings of the universe - was good.
Buddha's compassion for living things
An afterlife; Jews believe that there is an afterlife - but it does not have the physical description that Christian and Islamic heaven and hell have. Jews focus on living a good life according to God's laws rather than on punishment and reward after
Religion includes a belief in the supernatural or divine - a set of practices - and a code of ethics.


43. Marriage is an example of which basic characteristic of religion?
Rite of passage
Only those times when he invokes the authority of 'ex cathedra'; 'Ex cathedra' is the authority of the pope based on his position as teacher and pastor of Christians. When the pope speaks 'ex cathedra' on a doctrine of faith and morals - he is kept f
Were political rulers; The caliphs were considered successors to Muhammad - but after the first four - caliphs were political - rather than both political and religious - leaders
The concept that Judaism was based on laws that could be read and known


44. What is not elements of indigenous religious practices...
Who would appoint bishops
Written religious teachings; Indigenous religious practices are preliterate - so there were no written religious teachings - although modern anthropologists and similar researchers have written them down for various cultures.
Judaism; Judaism is a religion and Zionism is a political movement begun in 1896 to establish a Jewish state in what the Jews consider the 'promised land.'
Purim


45. In Zen Buddhism - 'satori' is...
The urge for spontaneity should be controlled; Taoism taught that spontaneous action that arose from being free of worldly concerns and open to the Tao - or workings of the universe - was good.
Prayer five times a day
Jesus is actually present in the bread and wine in communion
Enlightenment


46. In Taoism - yin is...
Offered a spiritual approach to life
An imperceptible presence in the universe
Female - nurturing - and passive
Men and women sitting together


47. What statement about the Qur'an is not true?
Sencond Vatican Council
It describes Allah as a strict - distant - and unresponsive god
Immersing adults in water
Shinto


48. What religions justify capital punishment for major offenses?
Islam; Christianity; Judaism; Zoroastrianism
The Exodus
The holy scripture of Nichiren Buddhism
The caste system is both religious and social in nature.


49. The Christian Science movement believes that...

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50. The best explanation of why Muslims pray prostrate on the ground is...
To show their humility before Allah
Lack of hierarchical structure; Unlike the Roman Catholic Church that has the pope at its head - Eastern Orthodox churches are ruled by a network of patriarchs.
Ramadan
An afterlife; Jews believe that there is an afterlife - but it does not have the physical description that Christian and Islamic heaven and hell have. Jews focus on living a good life according to God's laws rather than on punishment and reward after