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World Religion Literacy
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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.
profane
polytheism
phenomenology
fundamentalism
2. Believing in one's received traditions as completely and exclusively true.
absolutist
awakening
heretic
heretic
3. Magnetic attraction & a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders.
myth
exclusivism
charisma
gnosis
4. Repeated & patterned religious act.
ritual
intelligent design
awakening
spirituality
5. Study of religious practices to comprehend their meaning for their practitioners.
exclusivism
redaction
profane
phenomenology
6. The intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits of reason.
allegory
mysticism
polytheism
phenomenology
7. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.
allegory
immanent
awakening
dogma
8. A particular response to dimensions of life considered sacred & shaped by institutionalized traditions.
transcendent
religion
awakening
incarnation
9. Believing in one's received traditions as completely and exclusively true.
charisma
myth
absolutist
scientific materialism
10. Magnetic attraction & a quality often ascribed to spiritual leaders.
allegory
religion
spirituality
charisma
11. A discipline that attempts to compare and understand patterns found in different religious traditions.
Darwinism
comparative religion
atheism
awakening
12. Spiritual reality that exists apart from the material universe.
charisma
absolutist
immanent
transcendent
13. Physical embodiment of the divine.
charisma
incarnation
absolutist
Darwinism
14. Repeated & patterned religious act.
ritual
transcendent
Darwinism
enlightenment
15. The realm of the extraordinary & beyond everyday perceptions & the supernatural & holy.
exclusivism
awakening
allegory
sacred
16. Doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true by religious institutions.
dogma
mysticism
exclusivism
incarnation
17. Taking a flexible & non-dogmatic approach.
transcendent
Darwinism
transcendent
liberal
18. Theory that scientific discoveries prove the existence of an all encompassing Designer & since they reveal complexities beyond chance or evolutionary process.
intelligent design
dogma
scientific materialism
awakening
19. Belief that life evolved by biological processes such as natural selection.
absolutist
Darwinism
transcendent
fundamentalism
20. Belief that there is only one deity.
transcendent
realization
monotheism
charisma
21. Belief that there is no deity.
monotheism
redaction
atheism
Creationism
22. A particular response to dimensions of life considered sacred & shaped by institutionalized traditions.
incarnation
religion
scientific materialism
theism
23. Theory that scientific discoveries prove the existence of an all encompassing Designer & since they reveal complexities beyond chance or evolutionary process.
intelligent design
liberal
polytheism
mysticism
24. A symbolic story expressing ideas about reality or spiritual history.
gnosis
allegory
realization
myth
25. Belief in a deity or deities.
dogma
theism
agnosticism
allegory
26. Belief in a deity or deities.
orthodox
realization
monotheism
theism
27. Insistence on What is perceived as the historical form of one's religion.
liberal
theism
fundamentalism
allegory
28. Belief that there are many deities.
transcendent
profane
gnosis
polytheism
29. Physical embodiment of the divine.
incarnation
Creationism
orthodox
phenomenology
30. Philosophy based on theories of subtle realities that transcend the physical world.
theism
metaphysics
scientific materialism
Creationism
31. Editing and organization of a religion's scriptures.
allegory
spirituality
metaphysics
redaction
32. One whose assertions about religion are considered false by his or her religious institution.
liberal
metaphysics
phenomenology
heretic
33. One whose assertions about religion are considered false by his or her religious institution.
polytheism
religion
symbol
heretic
34. Any personal response to dimensions of life that are considered sacred.
spirituality
intelligent design
orthodox
mysticism
35. Strictly standing by received traditions.
orthodox
fundamentalism
charisma
polytheism
36. Present in the visible world.
Darwinism
spirituality
immanent
Creationism
37. Belief that there are many deities.
awakening
exclusivism
orthodox
polytheism
38. Belief that only the material world exists and that the supernatural is only imagined by humans.
scientific materialism
redaction
atheism
spirituality
39. Editing and organization of a religion's scriptures.
monotheism
gnosis
redaction
Creationism
40. The intuitive perception of spiritual truths beyond the limits of reason.
theism
Darwinism
absolutist
mysticism
41. Visible representation of an invisible reality or concept.
symbol
spirituality
theism
enlightenment
42. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
scientific materialism
symbol
enlightenment
Creationism
43. The realm of the extraordinary & beyond everyday perceptions & the supernatural & holy.
liberal
enlightenment
gnosis
sacred
44. Strictly standing by received traditions.
symbol
fundamentalism
agnosticism
orthodox
45. Wisdom that is thought to come from direct experience of Ultimate Reality.
agnosticism
metaphysics
enlightenment
scientific materialism
46. Full awareness of invisible Reality.
redaction
ritual
myth
awakening
47. Worldly & secular & as opposed to sacred.
profane
Creationism
dogma
heretic
48. Belief that one's own tradition is the only true religion and that others are invalid.
awakening
religion
charisma
exclusivism
49. Belief that there is only one deity.
agnosticism
immanent
monotheism
fundamentalism
50. Belief that if there is anything beyond this life & it is impossible for humans to know it.
comparative religion
redaction
agnosticism
comparative religion