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WorksheetsAPHUG: Religions
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
The world's largest universalizing religion is?
Hinduism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Shintoism
The world's four largest religions in terms of total number of adherents include all but which of the following?
Hinduism
Judaism
Christianity
Buddhism
Islam
Chinese tradition and African traditional represent which type of religion?
unaffiliated
ethnic
folk
universalizing
syncretic
______ is the belief that the existence of God cannot be proven empirically.
assimilation
atheism
amalgamation
unaffiliation
agnosticism
The world's largest ethnic religion is...
Daoism
Shintoism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Islam
A religion that is spatially widespread and philosophically inclusive of all potential adherents is described as a(n) ______ religion.
folk
universalizing
tribal
ethnic
animistic
An ethnic religion is...
appealing mostly to one group of people in one place
based on belief in one particular spiritual leader
based on only one leader
more peaceful than a universalizing religion
younger than a universalizing religion
Almost 90 percent of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to...
Christianity
Fundamentalist and nondenominational Christian churches
Roman Catholicism
Protestantism
Eastern Orthodoxy
A number of local congregations united in a single and legal administrative body is a...
denomination
sect
branch
dialect
family
A ______ is a large and fundamental division within a religion.
sect
denomination
family
dialect
branch
Which is a branch of Christianity?
Druze
Shi'ite
Eastern Orthodox
Judaism
Theravadist
Suuni and Shi'ite represent branches of Islam based on...
socioeconomic status
profession
ethnicity
religious calendars
disputes over religious leadership
_______ is the founder of Buddhism.
Lao-Zi
Guru Nanak
Siddhartha Gautama
Confucius
Dalai Lama
This religion is a polytheistic faith.
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Cao Dai
Sikhism
Chinese traditional religions are _______, in that they combine several traditions.
animistic
spiritist
syncretic
shamanistic
synchronized
Animism is...
the reverence of all mammals
the belief that cows are sacred
the belief that inanimate objects and natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life
another term for vegetarian
the combined reverence of mammals and birds
The belief in the existence of only one god is...
pagan
cosmogony
monotheism
polytheism
animism
The split between the Roman Catholic branch and the Orthodox branch of Christianity was due to a(n)...
unmanageable territory of the Roman Empire
presence of a large Jewish diaspora in Rome
migration of the Orthodox Christians east
rivalry between the Pope of Rome and the Patriarchy of Constantinople
diffusion of Islam
Protestantism originated with...
the principles of Reformation and the theses of Martin Luther
the Black Plague
the Potato Famine
Ferdinand and Isabella funding Columbus
the rivalry between the Pope of Rome and the Patriarchy of Constantinople
The core of Islamic beliefs rests on...
the Four Noble Truths
the 95 Theses of Reformation
the Eightfold Path
the Four Gospels
the Five Pillars
Buddhism is founded on the Four Noble Truths, which include all but...
suffering leads to rebirth
Nirvana is the goal
Nirvana is obtained through an Eightfold Path
all living things must endure suffering
Nirvana is attained as a community of believers, it is not an individual pursuit
