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World Religion Literacy

Subjects : trivia, culture
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Study of religious practices to comprehend their meaning for their practitioners.






2. Acceptance that truth may be found in all religions.






3. Acceptance that truth may be found in all religions.






4. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






5. A symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual history.






6. A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions.






7. A symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual history.






8. Belief that if there is anything beyond this life & it is impossible for humans to know it.






9. Physical embodiment of the divine.






10. Present in the visible world.






11. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.






12. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






13. The intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits of reason.






14. Theory that scientific discoveries prove the existence of an all encompassing Designer & since they reveal complexities beyond chance or evolutionary process.






15. Belief in a deity or deities.






16. Any personal response to dimensions of life that are considered sacred.






17. Belief that life evolved by biological processes such as natural selection.






18. Editing and organization of a religion's scriptures.






19. Believing in one's received traditions as completely and exclusively true.






20. A particular response to dimensions of life considered sacred & shaped by institutionalized traditions.






21. Belief in a deity or deities.






22. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






23. Magnetic attraction & a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders.






24. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






25. Physical embodiment of the divine.






26. Theory that scientific discoveries prove the existence of an all encompassing Designer & since they reveal complexities beyond chance or evolutionary process.






27. Insistence on What is perceived as the historical form of one's religion.






28. Belief that there is no deity.






29. Taking a flexible & non-dogmatic approach.






30. Study of religious practices to comprehend their meaning for their practitioners.






31. Belief that all life was created by God.






32. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.






33. One whose assertions about religion are considered false by his or her religious institution.






34. Spiritual reality that exists apart from the material universe.






35. Repeated & patterned religious act.






36. A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions.






37. Belief that there are many deities.






38. Philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that transcend the physical world.






39. The intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits of reason.






40. Belief that there is only one deity.






41. Belief that only the material world exists and that the supernatural is only imagined by humans.






42. Belief that one's own tradition is the only true religion and that others are invalid.






43. Believing in one's received traditions as completely and exclusively true.






44. A particular response to dimensions of life considered sacred & shaped by institutionalized traditions.






45. Magnetic attraction & a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders.






46. Philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that transcend the physical world.






47. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






48. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






49. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






50. Belief that there is no deity.