True or False


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 oral religions (religions with no written scriptures) 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

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