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Animism is a form of religion in which ________. |
all forms of life are inhabited by gods |
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A religious organization that has spun off from the beliefs and practices of existing churches until it became something quite different is a ________. |
sect |
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An entirely new religion whose members hold beliefs and engage in rituals that differ from those of existing religions is a ________. |
cult |
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Christianity began as a ________. |
cult |
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Members of the Islamic faith reside primarily in ________. |
Arab States of the Middle East |
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A church that is officially connected to a national government is referred to as a(n) ________. |
ecclesia |
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Careful consideration of the data associated with the Satanism scare of the 1980s indicates that about how many people were abducted per year by Satanists? |
Fewer than 100 |
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Whose rate of weekly church attendance is highest? |
Widowed persons |
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Which religion shown just below is NOT "monotheistic" in outlook? |
Hinduism |
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Which of the following believes in the transmigration of souls? |
Hinduism |
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In which Islamic country is the position of women one of less subservience? |
Kuwait |
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Where is Islam growing the most rapidly? |
Africa and Asia |
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Confucianism has been careful to avoid entanglement with political matters and governmental issues. |
False |
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Which group has the lowest rate of weekly church attendance? |
Jews |
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Which side triumphed legally in the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee in the late 1920s? |
The creationists |
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Who suggested that funerals might serve the latent function of re-weaving the social fabric to connect people together after a death has left a hole in a set of relationships? |
Emile Durkheim |
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Existentialism requires a strong commitment to a central deity as a main feature of its overall perspective. |
FALSE |
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"Cultural traditionalists" can be equated almost one-to-one as an equivalent term for religious fundamentalists. |
FALSE |
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Wiccans like to pray to "the Goddess." However, there seems to be no academic support for the idea that there was any pre-Christian religion that featured only one central female deity rather than a host of female supernatural figures. |
True |
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States with high rates of church attendance have a strong statistical tendency to be the same ones with a low homicide rate. |
False |
