Straighterline Religion 101 Final Exam Study Guide | 263 Questions with 100% Correct Answers

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