exam1- intro ch. Flashcards
knowledge of world religions can help a twenty-first century citizen to better comprehend
world politics
the most rapidly growing religion in Europe and North America is
Islam
In western cultures, we tend to define religion as
a set of beliefs having to do with Gods, through which one is taught a moral system
the contents of this text have been chosen from hundreds of world religions because
they share many overlapping characteristics
in the 1850’s Herbert Spencer theorized that the gods of “primitive” people were
based on dreams about the recent dead
monotheistic religions
recognizes one god
According to Muller, when “primitive” people became aware of the regularity of the season, tides, and the moon, their response to these forces was to
personalize them
Karl Marx believed that religion was
used by the ruling class to suppress the underclass
the basic beliefs of most indian religions are about
many gods and the cycle of death and rebirth
what is a major reason for the large number of followers of both christianity and islam
they are both great missionary religions
