RELS 163 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026
Cultural Industries - Answers Responsible for distribution and marketing of culture (TV, etc)
Articulation - Answers Communication using association/connections to other things
Incorporation - Answers How something joins the mainstream
Ex corporation - Answers Appropriation of culture or religion in new and unexpected ways
Carnivalesque - Answers Upheaval of social norms temporarily, to blow off steam (tunnel of love, dark
theatres)
Vernacular - Answers localized idioms
Intertexuality - Answers One text references another source
Othering - Answers defining self only in opposition to another
Cultural authorization - Answers assigning legitimacy/prestige
Karl Marx - Answers * Functionalist: religion used to oppress the proletariat and give hope
* Rels is a drug, brings heart in otherwise heartless world
Sigmund Freud - Answers * Functionalist: need a father figure to control primal urges
* Superego/Ego/Id
Frazer - Answers * Substantive: rels is the pleasing of gods above who have control over our lives
* Funky darwinian: more progressive/evolved is better- magic and religion is too old!
Durkheim - Answers * Functionalist: Social glue: acts to unite people with the same opinion on what is
'sacred'
* "sacred" is socially set apart and causes effervescence.
Eliade - Answers * Substantive: religion is a manifestation of inherently godly (sui generis- own special
kind) sacred things (not socially determined)
* Universalism: all religions experience it differently, but universally inderstood as encour with sacred
Theophany: GOD is manifested in mortal world
Hierophany: Sacredness (angel) interacts with mortal world
McCutcheon - Answers * Everyone applies religion to different things for different reasons
* opposes sui generis: religion is applied to unsacred things like death and politics
* Interested in labeling, not religion itself
Religious Characteristics - Answers 1. Belief (faith
Discourse - Answers How knowledge is socially constructed
Limited "discourse groups' affects how we see world
Cultural Industries - Answers Responsible for distribution and marketing of culture (TV, etc)
Articulation - Answers Communication using association/connections to other things
Incorporation - Answers How something joins the mainstream
Ex corporation - Answers Appropriation of culture or religion in new and unexpected ways
Carnivalesque - Answers Upheaval of social norms temporarily, to blow off steam (tunnel of love, dark
theatres)
Vernacular - Answers localized idioms
Intertexuality - Answers One text references another source
Othering - Answers defining self only in opposition to another
Cultural authorization - Answers assigning legitimacy/prestige
Karl Marx - Answers * Functionalist: religion used to oppress the proletariat and give hope
* Rels is a drug, brings heart in otherwise heartless world
Sigmund Freud - Answers * Functionalist: need a father figure to control primal urges
* Superego/Ego/Id
Frazer - Answers * Substantive: rels is the pleasing of gods above who have control over our lives
* Funky darwinian: more progressive/evolved is better- magic and religion is too old!
Durkheim - Answers * Functionalist: Social glue: acts to unite people with the same opinion on what is
'sacred'
* "sacred" is socially set apart and causes effervescence.
Eliade - Answers * Substantive: religion is a manifestation of inherently godly (sui generis- own special
kind) sacred things (not socially determined)
* Universalism: all religions experience it differently, but universally inderstood as encour with sacred
Theophany: GOD is manifested in mortal world
Hierophany: Sacredness (angel) interacts with mortal world
McCutcheon - Answers * Everyone applies religion to different things for different reasons
* opposes sui generis: religion is applied to unsacred things like death and politics
* Interested in labeling, not religion itself
Religious Characteristics - Answers 1. Belief (faith
Discourse - Answers How knowledge is socially constructed
Limited "discourse groups' affects how we see world
