Soc 121 Quizzes final exam

Geertz definition of religion emphasizes that religion is

Cultural

Each of these is a point in a human life in which chaos threatens to break in and make life meaningless EXCEPT:

Seeing happy people who believe very differently

The primary actor in Geertz’s theory of religion is

A system of symbols

According to Geertz, he who would know must first

Believe

Geertz distinguishes moods from

Motivations

For Asad, religion is a trans-historical and trans-cultural anthropological category.

False

Asad builds his argument around a critique of which of the authors we’ve already read

Geertz

For Asad—in contrast to other theorists—the formation of a religious way of knowing is necessarily linked to

power

Asad’s focus on genealogy is indebted to Foucault, who is himself indebted to this scholar we read?

Nietzsche

Asad draws on this religious figure’s example as a religious leader to make his argument

Augustine

Mahmood pulls from which of these Greek philosophers to make her argument?

Aristotle

Mahmood engages which of these feminists in her discussion of “performativity”?

Judith Butler

Which Muslim-majority country is Mahmood studying in Politics of Piety?

Egypt

The people Mahmood is studying are feminists committed to secular human rights despite living in a Muslim-majority country

False

This French thinker is central to Mahmood’s argument.

Foucault

According to Masuzawa, world religions were distinguished from ethnic religions based on their commitment to morality.

False

Over time, scholars of religion shifted from thinking of Christianity as having more in common with Buddhism rather than with Judaism, as Judaism is more “ethnic” while both Christianity and Buddhism are more “universal.”

True

According to Masuzawa, “the discovery of Buddhism” by European scholars centered:

Analysis of ancient Buddhist texts

According to these European scholars of Buddhism, “localized, nationalized, and indigenized Buddhisms actually found in modern Asia” are

A corruption of “primitive Buddhism”

According to Masuzawa, there were both qualitative argument about the nature of Buddhism itself and quantitative arguments about the number of Buddhists in the world to justify considering Buddhism a world religion.

True

Lee describes how there is only one definition of the secular.

False

For Lee, irreligion is “the rection of religion in whatever forms this rejection might take and however acute it might be”

True

For Lee, the irreligious and anti-religious are the same

False

For Lee, “non-religion is a phenomenon understood in contradistinction to religion.”

True

“People in many societies engage in religious practices that are so highly interwoven with everyday practical affairs that it is impossible to think of them as distinct forms of social life.” This described which religious form?

Entangled

Ammerman lists four religious types which include all of the following except

Christian

“Beginning with religion as ______ means that we start with the patterned regularities in what people do, and we seek to understand those patterns in the context of the cognitive models and the overlap-ping social fields of interaction that make them meaningful and allow us to act”

Practice

Ammerman emphasizes this kind of approach to religion

Lived Religion

When religion is ________, it occupies a distinct field in social life. That is, religion is supposed to happen in some places and not in others. Religion is recognized as having its own organizations that largely set their own rules, have their own separate activities, and are led by their own trained and credentialed professionals

Institutionalized

King’s letter from a Birmingham jail was in response to criticisms from other Black leaders

False

King insists that any form of being “extreme” is dangerous

False

King sees the white moderate as a valuable ally

False

King agrees that even for unjust laws, it makes sense for protestors to face punishment

True

King insists that direct action is about applying pressure to force political change.

True

Baldwin remained a committed Christian his entire life.

False

In our class reading, Baldwin describes meeting which prominent Black leader?

Elijah Muhammad

Despite his hostility to religion, Baldwin uses a lot of religious language and references in his work

True

This person in Baldwin’s life was also a preacher.

His father (stepfather)

Baldwin is ultimately convinced there is no reason to hope the situation for Black Americans will improve

False