RELIGIOUS RIGHTS FINAL TEST 2026
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◍ What does the final democratization of priesthood mean?.
Answer: Anyone can initiate anyone.
◍ SBNR.
Answer: new agers are spiritual but not religious
◍ What are two effects of increased cultural complexity?.
Answer: Pressure to invent new modes of communication and
processing.contemporary religious landscapes change at unprecedented pace
◍ Which world view was predominant in the Middle Ages?.
Answer: Biblical Christianity
◍ According to the world view of Modernism, mankind's progress come from.
Answer: science, technology, and reason
◍ Which world view seeks to reconcile a belief in the supernatural with a
logical approach to life?.
Answer: Biblical Christianity
◍ Key ideas.
Answer: Individual freedomindividuals=rational deciison
makersconvesntionality of institutuions sep. of power in gov't
◍ What are some key inventions of the recent communication revolution?.
Answer: Satellite, computers, and the internet.
◍ Which world view rejects any belief in "metanarratives" since those are
, usually attempts by one group?.
Answer: Postmodernism
◍ "mythology of science".
Answer: new agers use scientific jargon to support their spiritual beliefs
◍ Marxism is an example of.
Answer: Modernism
◍ Which of the following world views has not influenced American
Government and society?.
Answer: Humanism
◍ Adam Smith.
Answer: Free market capitalism, wealth of nations
◍ What do New Religious Movements (NRMs) usually have?.
Answer: They have an official ideology, leadership, and scripture.
◍ Which world view was heavily influenced by the Renaissance and the
Enlightenment?.
Answer: Modernism
◍ ethical concerns.
Answer: data privacy, authenticity, digital expolitation, algroithmic bias
◍ What is the historical order of these competing world views?.
Answer: Biblical Christianity, Modernism, Postmodernism
◍ What can people create in individual religion?.
Answer: Their own spiritualities.
◍ Roots of secularization.
Answer: Marx: religion= opium of the peopleNietzche: god is deadfreud:
religion is a form of neurosis
◍ The statement that the Catholic Church is the supreme social, cultural, and
sometimes even political authority comes from which world view?.
Answer: Biblical Christianity