Religions manifest eight possible elements: belief system, community, central myths,
ritual, ethics, characteristic emotional experiences, material expression, and -
✔✔Sacredness
The belief that all is divine is calle
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Religions manifest eight possible elements: belief system, community, central myths,
ritual, ethics, characteristic emotional experiences, material expression, and -
✔✔Sacredness
The belief that all is divine is called - ✔✔pantheism
__________________ argues that the existence of God cannot be proven. -
✔✔Agnosticism
Anthropologist ___________ believed that religion was rooted in spirit worship. - ✔✔E.
B. Tylor
___________ theorized that belief in a God or gods arises from the long-lasting
impressions made on adults by their childhood experiences. - ✔✔Sigmund Freud
Rudolf Otto argued that religions emerge when people experience that aspect of reality
which is essentially mysterious; while ___________ believed that religion was a noble
human response to the complexity and depth of reality. - ✔✔Carl Gustav Jung
Religions express truth ___________. For example, water can represent spiritual
cleansing; the sun, health; a mountain, strength; and a circle, eternity. - ✔✔symbolically
In early religions, the most significant female deity was particularly associated with
___________ and motherhood and has been known by many names, such as Asherah,
Aphrodite, and Freia. - ✔✔fertility
When we look at the world's dominant religions, we see three basic orientations in their
conceptions and location of the sacred: sacramental, prophetic, and ___________. -
✔✔mystical
As an academic discipline, the field of religious studies is now more than ___________
years old. - ✔✔200
Although there is no agreement on how to speak of ancient religious ways, they are
often inadequately referred to as traditional, aboriginal, indigenous, tribal, ___________,
primal, native, oral, and basic. - ✔✔nonliterate
Indigenous religions exist generally within ___________ cultures, in which every object
and act may have religious meaning. - ✔✔holistic
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