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1
Polytheism means belief in many gods.
A)True
B)False
2
Transcendentalism is the belief that reality is made of two different principles (spirit and matter); the belief in two gods (good and evil) in conflict.
A)True
B)False
3
E.B. Tylor is the nineteenth- and twentieth-century English anthropologist who saw religion as being rooted in worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
A)True
B)False
4
Transcendent means existing and operating within nature.
A)True
B)False
5
Animism refers to a worldview common among indigenous that sees all elements of nature as being filled with spirit or spirits.
A)True
B)False
6
Immanent means not limited by the physical world.
A)True
B)False
7
Carl Gustav Jung is the Swiss psychoanalyst who described religion as something that grew out of the individual's need to arrive at personal fulfillment, which he called individuation.
A)True
B)False
8
Agnosticism is the position that holds that the existence of God cannot be proven.
A)True
B)False
9
Jurgen Habermas is an Austrian ethnographer and philologist who argued that all humankind once believed in a single High God and that to this simple monotheism later beliefs in lesser gods and spirits were added.
A)True
B)False
10
Sigmund Freud is the American psychologist who viewed religion as a positive way of fulfilling needs and praised its positive influence on the lives of individuals.
A)True
B)False
11
Animism means belief in one God.
A)True
B)False
12
William James is the founder of psychoanalysis who theorized that belief in a God or gods arose from an adult's projection of powerful and long-lasting experiences with his or her parents.
A)True
B)False
13
James Frazer is the Scottish anthropologist and author of "The Golden Bough" who saw the origins of religion in early attempts by human beings to influence nature and who identified religion as an intermediate stage between magic and science.
A)True
B)False
14
Rudolf Otto is the German theologian who argued in "The Idea of the Holy" that religions emerge when people experience that aspect of reality which is essentially mysterious.
A)True
B)False
15
Theodicy refers to not asserting or denying the existence of any deity; unconcerned with the supernatural.
A)True
B)False
16
Pantheism means belief that everything in the universe is divine.
A)True
B)False
17
"Atheism" means the position that holds that there is no God or gods.
A)True
B)False
18
Emile Durkheim was the French sociologist who argued that religious behavior is relative to the society in which it is found, and that a society will often use a religion to reinforce its own values.
A)True
B)False
19
The analytical approach that carefully investigates individual elements in cultural phenomena, rejecting the quest for universal structures that might under gird language or religion is called "post-structuralism."
A)True
B)False
20
Jacques Derrida was the French thinker who explored types of power in institutions and systems of thought that oppressed minority and other marginalized groups.
A)True
B)False





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