World Religions - Unit 1 - Voc. Assessment

1. Religion begins with (a)   .

Match the following

• diviners

• The capital city of the Aztec empire, believed to be the center of the world

• taboo

• A natural form, such as an animal or rock, that symbolizes an Ancestor in Aboriginal traditions

• trickster figure

• A sort of mischievous supernatural being who tends to disrupt the normal course of life

• Tenochtitlan

• Yoruba priests who help people learn their future

• totem

• A system that dictates that certain sacred things and activities are set aside for specific members and forbidden to other members

Suffering is an important aspect of the ______ ______, one of the basic concerns of religion.

(a)  

The belief that divine reality exists in everything is called (a)   .

Most religions reach that spiritual fulfillment is closely related to some form of (a)   from death, the ultimate limitation.

Some forms of spiritual fulfillment involve (a)   , the overcoming of normal limitations imposed by the human condition.

The (a)   dimension of religion deals with how we are to act while living in the world.

In some forms of (a)   , the individual becomes one with ultimate reality through inward contemplation.

The (a)   dimension of religion includes formal worship practice, which often involves reenacting a myth.

One important approach for studying religions is (a)   , the capacity to see things from another person's perspective.