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Some authorities would describe a mystical experience as a sense of oneness with God. These experiences can be described as _______ when we regard the sacred encounter as inspiring both fear and awe. (pages 12-13)

SELECT ONE ANSWER ONLY

Select one or more:

a. symbols of faith

b. numinous

c. characteristics

d. conscious of movement

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Forms of religious expression ________________ and point to the ultimate nature of the sacred. They become a part of a person's inner life. (p 13)

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Select one or more:

a. tell us about the province of Fyodor Dostoevsky

b. unite to become a single unified experience

c. adult convert and probably

d. are taken there by their parents

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One who studies religion should not set out to decide about its truth or falsity. They should use a descriptive, empathic approach in order to ______________________. (pages 13-14)

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Select one or more:

a. too much empathy

b. know and understand

c. turn religion inside out to gaze

d. human sacrifice and healing work

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The main goal in this class and in our textbook is to be ___________ of the beliefs and practices of others, so we can gain information and insight. (p 14)

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Select one or more:

a. criticism is essential

b. responsible statement

c. in the thick of these conflicts

d. descriptive

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Agricultural people stayed in the same place and observed the cycles of nature in the changing of the seasons. When writing emerged, people could read the chronicles of history. They were able to conclude that _________________, which gave rise to individualistic religions that taught about individual responsibility and a sense of linear time. (pages 14 - 16)

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Select one or more:

a. larger religious perspective

b. things change and do not change back

c. Israel went through visissitudes

d. merit and salvation

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During the __________ between 500 B.C.E. and 500 C.E., Zoroaster, Moses, the Buddha, Confucius, Lao Zi, Jesus, and Prophet Muhammad pbuh, founded major religions which were set in texts that were able to be read consistently over time. (pages 15-16)

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Select one or more:

a. axial age

b. Bhagavad-Gita

c. new religious visions

d. stricter and more intolerant

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Our book tell us that there are constant changes in religions over time, but art, artifacts, and written texts assure us that _______________________. (p 17)

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Select one or more:

a. tradition and new ideas

b. significant things that appear in history are never really lost

c. expression continually shape

d. symbols and concepts

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We can describe something as being __________when the study of history, religion, and the humanities uses male experience as the norm. (pages 18-19)

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Select one or more:

a. heteronormative

b. Eurocentric

c. androcentric

d. anthrocentric

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Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), the medieval Italian philosopher and theologian of the Dominican Order, avoided a forced marriage to her widower brother-in-law by _______________ in order to persuade her father to dissolve the marriage agreement. (p18)

SELECT ONE ANSWER ONLY

Select one or more:

a. practicing a folk myth

b. refusing to get out of bed

c. sanction doctrines

d. refusing to eat

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One of the fundamental features of religion is its ideas about _______________ which is known in academia as religious cosmology (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. (page 20 and link (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.)

SELECT ONE ANSWER ONLY

Select one or more:

a. the origin and destiny of the world

b. an introductory outline

c. complexity of humanity

d. women's lives and shapes

Explanation / Answer

1). (b). Numinous.

2). (b). Unite to become a single unified experience.

3). (b). Know and understand.

4). (a). Criticism is essential.

5). (b). Things change and do not change back.

6). (a). Axial age.

7). (b). Significant things that appear in history are never really lost.

8). (c). Androcentric.

9). (d). Refusing to eat.

10). (a). The origin and destiny of the world.

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