Introduction To The Academic Study Of Religion Part 1

Question 1

A general feature of modernity is its tendency to deny the authority of what?

Answer 1

Tradition and traditional mode such as partriarchy

Question 2

The general process through which societies transform economically, socially,
culturally to keep pace with an increasingly competitive global marketplace is what?

Answer 2

Modernization

Question 3

Nivian Smart’s material dimension of religion involves what?

Answer 3

The place of artistic creations and natural entities and religious traditions

Question 4

Myth is understood by the academic field of religious studies is what?

Answer 4

A powerful source of truth

Question 5

Religious scholar Ninian Smart’s “dimensional” scheme divides the various aspects of religious traditions into seven dimensions which include what?

Answer 5

Doctoral and ritual

Question 6

What do we mean when we say that religious studies in “multidisciplinary”?

Answer 6

That it draws on a number of academic fields of study.

Question 7

The word cosmology indicates a religion’s

Answer 7

Understanding of the nature and order of the world

Question 8

Henotheism

Answer 8

Acknowledges of many gods but elevates one to a special status

Question 9

We referred to a religion as theistic when what?

Answer 9

The divine is thought of as God or as gods

Question 10

Which of the following is among the prominent questions addressed by religions?

Answer 10

How should we live in the world?
What is the ultimate reality?
What is our ultimate purpose?

Question 11

Religion functions in an unhealthy manner as an “opium” that deters the suffering individual from attending to the true cause of affliction according to what?

Answer 11

Karl Marx

Question 12

Bruce Lincoln’s definition of religion emphasizes for “domains”?

Answer 12

Discourse, practice, community, and institution

Question 13

According to Gerald Larson, religion is a network of culture “blank”, used by people to express their apprehensions or experience of “blank”?

Answer 13

Symbol/transcendence

Question 14

Perhaps no single phenomenon has been more challenging to traditional religions ways – and more nurturing of secularization – than what?

Answer 14

The encounter of religion with science

Question 15

What is Spiros focus on “superhuman beings” problematic as a conception of religion?

Answer 15

Because it excludes some forms of Buddhism

Question 16

Spiro

Answer 16

The formulation of “religion” found in the Harper Collins Dictionary of Religion, was influenced by which scholar?

Question 17

How are dharma and the 10 Commandments alike?

Answer 17

They both provide instructions on how we should live in the world.

Question 18

According to Rudolph Otto. The experience of Mysterium Tremendum and Fascinans in a mixture of “blank” and “blank”.

Answer 18

Fear/Awe

Question 19

The capacity for seeing things from another’s perspective is what?

Answer 19

Empathy

Question 20

“Blank” is the general turning away from religious authority and institutions

Answer 20

Secularization

Question 21

Emile Durkheim’s understanding of religion could best be summarized in what way?

Answer 21

Religion unifies communities

Question 22

Enlightenment thinkers such as “blank” conceived of religion as something separate from the various phenomena the human mind is capable of perceiving

Answer 22

Immanuel Kant

Question 23

The first section of chapter 1 looks closely at various

Answer 23

Definition of “religion”

Question 24

Wilfred Cantwell Smith in the Meaning and End of Religion argues that the use of the term “religion” by theorist what?

Answer 24

Should be abandoned altogether, due to its ambiguity and misleading inferences

Question 25

The attempt to understand a goldfish, and a pond is analogous to the study of religion and insofar as it illustrates what?

Answer 25

The need to balance the perspectives of insider and outsider