WORLD RELIGIONS - QUIZ 1

Religion According to the Oxford English Dictionary is an “action or conduct indicating belief in, obedience to, and reverence for a god, gods, or similar superhuman power, the performance of religious rites or observances."

• TRUE

• FALSE

There are three important essential components of religion:

1) belief in a supernatural being;

2) effort or commitment; and

3) affiliations of religions.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The word religion comes from three Latin words, EXCEPT.

• relegere

• religari

• realighere

• re-eligere

He defined religion as a “function of the spiritual unconscious, which is the source of the will to meaning."

• Emile Durkheim

• Victor Frankl

• Paul Tillich

He defined religion as “the feeling of absolute dependence."

• Friedrich Schleiermacher

• Paul Tillich

• Victor Frankl

According to him, religion is “the feeling, acts, and experiences of individual people in their solitude as they stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.”

• Rudolf Otto

• Emile Durkheim

• William James

Choose the correct major world views below.

It is the faith in a single, all-powerful god. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are major religions.

• All is one (Monistic/Monism)

• Many Gods (Polytheistic/Polytheism)

• One God (Monotheistic/Monotheism)

• No God (Atheistic/Atheism)

Choose the correct major world views below.

This view believes that “all is one,” that there are no fundamental divisions, and that a unified set of laws underlies all of nature.

• All is one (Monistic/Monism)

• Many Gods (Polytheistic/Polytheism)

• One God (Monotheistic/Monotheism)

• No God (Atheistic/Atheism)

Choose the correct major world views below.

It is the disbelief in gods or supernatural.

• All is one (Monistic/Monism)

• Many Gods (Polytheistic/Polytheism)

• One God (Monotheistic/Monotheism)

• No God (Atheistic/Atheism)

Choose the correct major world views below.

This refers to the belief in and adoration of several deities.

• All is one (Monistic/Monism)

• Many Gods (Polytheistic/Polytheism)

• One God (Monotheistic/Monotheism)

• No God (Atheistic/Atheism)