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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 there is only one deity.






2. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






3. Full awareness of invisible Reality.






4. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.






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






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






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






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






9. Repeated & patterned religious act.






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






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






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






13. Personal awareness of the existence of Unseen Reality.






14. Repeated & patterned religious act.






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






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






17. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.






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






19. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






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






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






22. Belief that all life was created by God.






23. Narrative using symbols to convey abstract ideas.






24. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






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






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






27. Intuitive knowledge of spiritual realities.






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






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






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






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






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






33. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.






34. Belief that there are many deities.






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






36. Physical embodiment of the divine.






37. Physical embodiment of the divine.






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






39. Belief that there is no deity.






40. Belief that all life was created by God.






41. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.






42. Present in the visible world.






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






44. Belief in a deity or deities.






45. Strictly standing by received traditions.






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






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






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






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






50. Belief in a deity or deities.