Chapter 14 Quiz

A unified system of beliefs and practices concerned with sacred things

• mindset

• profane

• religion

• protestant ethic

Holy; set apart and given meaning that goes beyond, or transcends, immediate existence

• profane

• protestant ethic

• religion

• sacred

Nonsacred

• profane

• legitimate

• spirit of capitalism

• protestant ethic

To justify or give approval to

• sacred

• legitimate

• profane

• church

The obligation to reinvest money in business rather than to spend it

• protestant ethic

• spirit of capitalism

• legitimate

• sacred

A set of values, norms, beliefs, and attitudes stressing hard work, thrift, and self-discipline

• spirit of capitalism

• protestant ethic

• religion

• sacred

A life-encompassing religious organization to which all members of society belong

• sect

• church

• cult

• religion

A religious organization that arises out of a desire to reform an existing religious organization

• sect

• cult

• church

• congregation

A religious organization whose characteristics are not drawn from existing religious traditions within a society

• sect

• cult

• church

• synagogue

One of several religious organizations that most members of a society accept as legitimate

• denomination

• church

• sect

• profane