REL212 Week 11 Final Exam Latest 2017 June

Question 1

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Outside a shrine in Kamakura, there is an image of the kami Inari along with an image of a bodhisattva. This is an example of

Question 2

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Which word most closely translates the Japanese word "kami"?

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Nationalists who idealized Japan's ancient "Shinto" past used Confucian-style ancestor worship to

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While under oppressive rule, some Jews believed their oppression would end when a(n)

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A Jewish family in Tucson, Arizona, erects a simple outdoor booth during Sukkot. If you asked them why, what might be their response?

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Kabbalah is associated with esotericism

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Hasidism has been successful at gaining adherents among young Jews because of

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The Sabbath begins at sunset on

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Matthew, Mark, and Luke are called the synoptic gospels because

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Christians reconciled monotheism and the existence of God the Father and Jesus through the doctrine of

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The story of Adam and Eve demonstrates that humanity needs a compassionate, loving God by illustrating that everyone is

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Colossians states that in Jesus "whole fullness of deity dwells bodily," which relates to the Christian doctrine of

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The first four books of the New Testament, which were written forty to sixty years after Jesus' death, are called the gospels, or "good news," because

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Muhammad's life and sayings are preserved in literature called the

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Muslims see Christians and Jews as "People of the Book" because

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Your friend invites you to a mosque where the imam instructs the community to engage in the Greater Jihad with diligence. What is the teacher talking about?

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The Muslim community established the shari'ah

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The sacred book of Islam is called the Qur'an because

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Ik Onkar is a concept that affirms Sikhism as

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The Sikh congregation is called a

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Guru Gobind Singh formed the Khalsa in response to

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You overhear a Sikh and Hindu discussing their traditions' theologies. Which beliefs would you expect them to agree on?

Question 23

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"Cult" is often used pejoratively to distinguish a tradition that is new. This is imprecise because

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Why was the crowing of Haile Selassie important for the Rastafari religious group?

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Scientology offers its practitioners the service of "auditing"; therefore, it is considered a(n)

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Santeria developed in part because

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The goal of religious pluralism is

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Globalization is not a one-sided phenomenon because it produces

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Which country has the largest percentage of church-going people in the industrialized world?

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Some scholars feel that using religious rhetoric of good versus evil in international warfare has