World Religions - Unit 1 - Voc. Assessment

1. Religion begins with _______________.

Match the following

• trickster figure

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

• diviners

• Yoruba priests who help people learn their future

• taboo

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

• Tenochtitlan

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

• totem

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

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

The belief that divine reality exists in everything is called _______ .

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

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

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

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

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

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