Invitation to World Religions (1-3) Exam
with correct answers
Atheism - correct answer::Belief that there is no god.
Cosmology - correct answer::The understanding of the nature of the world that typically explains its
origin and how its ordered
empathy - correct answer::Capacity for seeing things from another's perspective, and an important
methodological approach for studying religion
Globalization - correct answer::Linking and intermixing of cultures
Henotheism - correct answer::Belief in one primary God and many secondary ones
Modernization - correct answer::Process through which primitive societies transform to keep up with
standards set by industrialized Europe.
Monism - correct answer::The belief that all reality is ultimately one
Multiculturalism - correct answer::Coexistance of different peoples and their cultural ways in on place
and time
Mysterium tremendum and fascinas - correct answer::the contrasting feelings of awe-inspiring mystery
and of overwhelming attraction that are said by Rudolph Otto to characterize numinous experience
Mystical experience - correct answer::a general category of religious experience characterized in various
ways
Myth - correct answer::A story or narrative that sets forth basic truths of a religious tradition
, Nontheistic - correct answer::A religion that does not maintain belief in dieties
Numinous experience - correct answer::Rudolf Otto's term for describing an encounter with "the Holy";
it is characterized by the two powerful and contending forces, mysterium tremendum and fascinans.
Pantheism - correct answer::Belief that the divine world is identical to nature or the material world
Polytheism - correct answer::Belief in many gods
Revealed Ethics - correct answer::Truth regarded right behavior believed to be divinely established an
intentionally revealed to mankind
Revelation - correct answer::Expression of divine will
Ritual - correct answer::Formal worship practice
Secularization - correct answer::Turning away from traditional religious authority and institutions
Stocicism - correct answer::Pantheistic religious philosophy
Theistic - correct answer::Term denoting a religion that maintains a belief in God or gods
Transcendence - correct answer::Category for whatever is perceived as being beyond the normal or
mundane sphere of things
Urbanization - correct answer::Shift of population centers from rural to cities
Chapter 2 - correct answer::
with correct answers
Atheism - correct answer::Belief that there is no god.
Cosmology - correct answer::The understanding of the nature of the world that typically explains its
origin and how its ordered
empathy - correct answer::Capacity for seeing things from another's perspective, and an important
methodological approach for studying religion
Globalization - correct answer::Linking and intermixing of cultures
Henotheism - correct answer::Belief in one primary God and many secondary ones
Modernization - correct answer::Process through which primitive societies transform to keep up with
standards set by industrialized Europe.
Monism - correct answer::The belief that all reality is ultimately one
Multiculturalism - correct answer::Coexistance of different peoples and their cultural ways in on place
and time
Mysterium tremendum and fascinas - correct answer::the contrasting feelings of awe-inspiring mystery
and of overwhelming attraction that are said by Rudolph Otto to characterize numinous experience
Mystical experience - correct answer::a general category of religious experience characterized in various
ways
Myth - correct answer::A story or narrative that sets forth basic truths of a religious tradition
, Nontheistic - correct answer::A religion that does not maintain belief in dieties
Numinous experience - correct answer::Rudolf Otto's term for describing an encounter with "the Holy";
it is characterized by the two powerful and contending forces, mysterium tremendum and fascinans.
Pantheism - correct answer::Belief that the divine world is identical to nature or the material world
Polytheism - correct answer::Belief in many gods
Revealed Ethics - correct answer::Truth regarded right behavior believed to be divinely established an
intentionally revealed to mankind
Revelation - correct answer::Expression of divine will
Ritual - correct answer::Formal worship practice
Secularization - correct answer::Turning away from traditional religious authority and institutions
Stocicism - correct answer::Pantheistic religious philosophy
Theistic - correct answer::Term denoting a religion that maintains a belief in God or gods
Transcendence - correct answer::Category for whatever is perceived as being beyond the normal or
mundane sphere of things
Urbanization - correct answer::Shift of population centers from rural to cities
Chapter 2 - correct answer::
