REL 100 Exam 1 questions with answers graded A+

REL 100 Exam 1assumes that the divine is real and that religion is a response or approach to spiritual realities, assumes that at least one religion is true - correct answer theological attempts to understand the origins of religion and to explain religion in terms of its significance and function in society, typically explaining or describing religion in non-religious terms (e.g. in terms of psychology or sociology) - correct answer reduction accepts religion as an enduring human phenomenon, which can be studied and appreciated as a phenomenon, on its own terms, without seeking to explain its origins nor judge as to whether it is true or false - correct answer phenomenology argued that the sacred is simply a symbol of the society, linked religion with society as a "mirror" of the society; authored the book The Elementary Forms of Religious Life - correct answer Emile Durkheim was an atheist who viewed religion as an "outward manifestation of basic psychological causes," considered religion to be an illusion, a form of "wish fulfillment" and a projection of neuroses; authored several books exploring the nature of religion, including Totem and Taboo - correct answer Sigmund Freud saw God or "the Holy" as the reality that stands beyond and behind what we call "religion," identified this "Holy" as numinous and the "mysterium tremendum fascinans"; authored the book The Idea of the Holy - correct answer Rudolf Otto considered awareness of the sacred to be at the heart of the human religious experience; authored the book The Sacred and the Profane - correct answer Mircea Eliade