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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Believing in one's received traditions as completely and exclusively true.






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






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






4. Physical embodiment of the divine.






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






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






7. Repeated & patterned religious act.






8. Belief that there is only one deity.






9. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






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






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






12. Belief that there is no deity.






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






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






15. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






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






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






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






19. Belief in a deity or deities.






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






21. Strictly standing by received traditions.






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






23. The realm of the extraordinary & beyond everyday perceptions & the supernatural & holy.






24. Strictly standing by received traditions.






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






26. Taking a flexible & non-dogmatic approach.






27. Belief that all life was created by God.






28. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.






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






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






31. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






32. Belief that there is no deity.






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






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






35. Belief that there is only one deity.






36. Present in the visible world.






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






38. Present in the visible world.






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






40. Repeated & patterned religious act.






41. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






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






43. The realm of the extraordinary & beyond everyday perceptions & the supernatural & holy.






44. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






45. Belief that all life was created by God.






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






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






48. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.






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






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