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






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






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






4. Repeated & patterned religious act.






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






6. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






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






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






9. Repeated & patterned religious act.






10. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






11. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






12. Strictly standing by received traditions.






13. Belief that there is only one deity.






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






15. Belief in a deity or deities.






16. Physical embodiment of the divine.






17. Present in the visible world.






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






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






20. Belief that there is only one deity.






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






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






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






24. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






25. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.






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






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






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






29. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






30. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.






31. Belief that there are many deities.






32. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






33. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.






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






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






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






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






38. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.






39. Belief that there is no deity.






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






41. Belief that all life was created by God.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Belief that all life was created by God.






50. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.