ReliMyRits

When we use the term myth in scholarship, it is synonymous with the fact that a story that is false.

• True

• False

When we read the Diary of Anne Frank, we are being asked to think

• microscopically

• telescopically

• laparoscopically

• no option is correct

Which of the following is an example of a life-cycle ritual?

• a wedding

• brushing your teeth before bed

• ritually washing your feet before prayer

• making the sign of the cross during mass

If rituals transition actors from one state of being to another, what are the consequences when ritual goes wrong?

• we will anger the god/s who will harm us with misfortune and bad luck

• nothing, God understands our intentions

• the new state of being may be put into jeopardy

• rituals are meaningless, so there aren't consequences

Arnold Van Gennep (and later Victor Turner) used the term "liminality" to refer to which stage of a ritual?

• the period before the ritual begins

• all options are correct

• the period during the ritual

• the period after the ritual is over

Answer explanation

Ex. wedding

preliminary: single

liminiary: are you married?

postliminary: married, can't do preliminary things

The Puritans were an English Protestant sect who believed that the Protestant Reformation should ________________ the Catholic Church.

• mirror itself after

• break away more forcefully from

• maintain a close relationship to

• none of the above

The Massachusetts Bay Colony imagined their new settlement as a City upon a Hill, that the whole world would ____________ and ____________.

• love/adore

• criticize/reject

• admire/copy

• despise/attack

Answer explanation

John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” 1630 - “City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us”

Civil religion refers to:

• the idea that the nation must be civilized by religion

• religious nationalism that understands the nation as sacred

• religion that encourages the teaching of civic engagement

• none of the above

When Robert Bellah uses the term “civil religion,” he is drawing on the work of which European philosopher?

• George Freidrich Hegel

• Jacques Rousseau

• Immanuel Kant

• David Hume

Christian doctrine justified the myth of "Manifest Destiny," which was:

• the notion that Anglo-American expansion into the West (settler colonialism) is sanctioned by God's providence

• the notion that the British Empire was enacting the will of God

• the notion that one can manifest wealth through the power of positive thinking

• the Puritan colonial project was destined to create 13 colonies, because lucky 13 is in the Bible