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






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






3. Taking a flexible & non-dogmatic approach.






4. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.






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






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






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






8. Belief that all life was created by God.






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






10. Belief that there are many deities.






11. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






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






13. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.






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






15. Strictly standing by received traditions.






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






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






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






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






20. Belief that there is no deity.






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






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






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






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






25. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






26. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.






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






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






29. Present in the visible world.






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






31. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






32. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






33. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.






34. Belief that there is only one deity.






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






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






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






38. Physical embodiment of the divine.






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






40. Strictly standing by received traditions.






41. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






42. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.






43. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






44. Belief that there is only one deity.






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






46. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






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






48. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.






49. Belief that there is no deity.






50. Belief in a deity or deities.