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






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






4. Repeated & patterned religious act.






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






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






7. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






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






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






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






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






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






13. Physical embodiment of the divine.






14. Repeated & patterned religious act.






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






16. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






17. Taking a flexible & non-dogmatic approach.






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






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






20. Belief that there is only one deity.






21. Belief that there is no deity.






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






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






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






25. Belief in a deity or deities.






26. Belief in a deity or deities.






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






28. Belief that there are many deities.






29. Physical embodiment of the divine.






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






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






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






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






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






35. Strictly standing by received traditions.






36. Present in the visible world.






37. Belief that there are many deities.






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






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






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






41. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.






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






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






44. Strictly standing by received traditions.






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






46. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






47. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






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






49. Belief that there is only one deity.






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