RELI-448N Week 2 Quiz 1: Correct Solutions
RELI 448N Week 2 Quiz Chamberlain College RELI 448N
Comparative Religion
Pantheism is the view that:
There is only one God.
Everything in the
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RELI-448N Week 2 Quiz 1: Correct Solutions
RELI 448N Week 2 Quiz Chamberlain College RELI 448N
Comparative Religion
Pantheism is the view that:
There is only one God.
Everything in the universe is divine.
All elements of nature are filled with spirits.
The existence of God cannot be proven.
Agnosticism is the view that:
The existence of God cannot be proven.
All elements of nature are filled with spirits.
There is no God or gods.
Everything in the universe is divine.
The term immanent implies that the Divine is:
Extant primarily in a realm beyond the everyday world.
Present in the immediate, natural world.
Only found after death.
Completely inaccessible.
The theory that religion is rooted in placating & worshipping spirits is attributed to:
William James
E. B. Tylor
Sigmmund Freud
Rudolf Otto
The view that religion was a symptom of the poverty & inadequacy of modern society is attributed to:
Carl Jung
William James
Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud
True or False: Religious Studies, as a discipline, is focused on making definitive statements about the “Truth” of individual religious traditions.
True
False
All of the following are examples of characteristic emotional experiences of religions
except:
Dread
Inner Peace
Guilt
Correct Answer
Pride
Derived from the words for “sitting near,” these texts record insights into external & internal realities:
Correct Answer
The Upanishads
The Vedas
The Sutras
The Bhagavad Gita
A word meaning both “magic” & “matter,” & also carrying the connotation of “illusion” is:
Karma
Moksha
Maya
Samsara
The Hindu deity associated with preservation is:
Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
Ganesha
All of the following are forms of the Divine Mother except:
Durga
Kali
Lakshmi
Ganesha
The yoga that seeks union with the divine through acts of devotion, either to deities or to the teacher, is called:
Jnana Yoga
Bhakti Yoga
Karma Yoga
Raja Yoga
Though it does not appear in the Bhagavad Gita, the fourth yoga promotes meditation & includes the physical practice of yoga with which we are most familiar in the West. This fourth Yoga is called:
Bhakti Yoga
Jnana Yoga
Karma Yoga
Raja Yoga
Rama & Krishna are believed to be emanations of which deity?
Brahma
Vishnu
Shiva
Durga
The act of looking into the eyes of a guru in order to experience the divine energy that the teacher radiates is called:
Karma
Moksha
Darshan
Siddhi
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