Power 15

Although many religious movements have emerged in modern times, few have become firmly established in society.

False

Modernization affects society and religion at different times

True

Religions tend to prevent egalitarian ideals from being incorporated into their traditions

False

The Baha'i religion is characterized by strict fundamentalist beliefs

F

New religious movements often arise in response to modern situations

T

Elements of other religious traditions are never incorporated into new religious movements

F

Reverence of nature is uncommon in many of the world's religious traditions

F

Scientific methods and knowledge have generally supported traditional religious view

F

Most religious groups have rejected Darwinism as completely incompatible with their perspectives of human origins

F

Research indicates the human brain does not react differently during religious experiences or events

F

The economic system based on ownership and pursuit of wealth is

Capitalism

Religious traditions have generally been shaped to conform to

rural settings

Which of the following institutions is an example of liberalism within an established religion?

Second Vatican Council

The tendency to regard all religious perspectives as equal is

The universalist impulse

Baha'i teaches that the founders of the world's religions

have all been God's divine messengers

The Vedanta society and ISKCON are based of which religion

Hinduism

Mormonism began with which of these events?

The Restoration

A practice that is no longer common among Mormons

Polygamy

Jehovah's Witnesses are awaiting the millennial age

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that other forms of Christianity should be

avoided

The New Age movement believes that the transformation of the world is vitally linked to

individual transformation

Neopaginism embraces polytheism

A central element of Pentecostalism is

Glossolalia

Which of the following is NOT an assumption science makes about reality

The truth can be known through subjective experience

Which of the following statements in ot part of the Big Bang Theory?

Te universe relies on divine action or intention

Which of the following traditions supports a basic cosmology

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Which major document was established by the Parliament of the World Religions in 1993?

The Declaration of Global Ethic

Founder of ISKCON and The Bhagavad Gita As It IS

Swami Prabhupada

Young Visionary who found and translated the lost prophetic writings of Mormon

Joesph Smith Jr.

Author of Origin of Species, whose scientific theory of evolution challenged many religious beliefs

Charles Darwin

Successful businessman who founded Jehovah's Witness and tried to predict end of the world

Charles Taze Russel

Man who established the Vedanta Society in New York, the first Hindu Organization in the US

Swami Vivekanada

Mormon leader who in 1847 moved his followers to Salt Lake Valley to establish a community

Brigham oung

Man who founded and presided over Bethel Bible College

launched Pentecostal Movement

Charles Fox Parham

Man who was imprisoned and exiled by Muslim authorities after he claimed in 1863 to be a prophet

Baha Allah

Theory that human life originates in the simplest forms and over time leads to more complex forms

Darwinism

Worldview that science is the only valid method of acquiring knowledge

Scientism

Religious group where membership is voluntary and generally opposes the ordinary ways of society

Sect

Psychological and biological study of religion focusing on the brain's response to experience and ritual

Neurotheology

Emphasis on a literal interpretation of a religion's sacred text

intensely traditionalist form of a religion

Fundamentalism

Coexistence of different peoples and their cultures

Multiculturalism

Late 20th century perspective that reflects a critical reaction to the trends of the modern world

Postmodernism

A gift of the spirit

the ability to speak in tongues

Glossolalia

The linking and intermixing of cultures

Globalization

Counterpart to traditionalism, holding that a religion should adapt to society's changes

Liberalism

Within religious traditions, a reaction to rapid changes in the world, involving the maintenance of older forms of beliefs and practice regardless of social norms

Traditionalism

Worldview that ultimate value is grounded entirely in the human realm, not the supernatural

Secular Humanism

Groups that are somewhat distinctive, yet are generally accepted by society at large and by its predominant religion or religions

Cults

General process by which societies transform economically, socially, and culturally to conform with standards set by industrialized Europe

Modernization

A theory of physics that holds that laws of nature are not entirely certain

Quantum Mechanics

Which of the following traditions support a basic cosmology?

All of the above

Which of the following institutions is an example of liberalism within an established religious tradition?

The process by which societies transform economically and culturally to conform to the standard of industrialized Europe is called?

Modernization

Globalization, the intermixing and linking of cultures, began

During the era of exploration and colonization

_is the worldview that ultimate value is based entirely in the human realm, not in the divine.

Secular humanism

____is a perspective that arose in the late twentieth century, reflecting a critical reaction to the trends of the modern world

Postmodernism

_are two new religions that combine elements of African religion with elements of Christianity

Voodoo and Santeria

____draws from Hinduism and Western occult teaching and is not based on a particular founder

The New Age movement