Exam 4, Chapter 14

Question 1

Definition of religion

Answer 1

Socially organized patterns of belief and practices

Question 2

True or false

Religion deals with relating to ultimate reasoning and assuming the existence of the supernatural

Answer 2

true

Question 3

What is the percentage of people in the US that say “I am a religious person.”

Answer 3

81%

Question 4

What is the percentage of people in the US that say “I am a convinced atheist.”

Answer 4

1%

Question 5

What is the percentage of people in Mexico that say they are religious compared to the percentage of atheists

Answer 5

76% religious

2% atheist

Question 6

What is percentages of religious people in canada to atheists

Answer 6

72% religious

4% atheist

Question 7

true or false

religion and morality is automatically linked

Answer 7

false, rituals/church attendance have little or no influence in terms of reinforcing moral behavior

Question 8

True or false

The image of god has more influence on moral behavior than ritual

Answer 8

true, when God is seen as conscious, powerful, morally concerned being, that image functions to sustain the moral order

Question 9

What are two theories of religion

Answer 9

Economy theory and church-sect theory

Question 10

What is religious economy theory

Answer 10

Religious organizations operate in a market similar to commercial economy, they compete trying to attract clients

Question 11

What is the key influence of religious economy theory

Answer 11

degree to which a religious economy is regulated by the state

Question 12

True or false

Most religious groups would prefer to have a state sponsored monopoly

Answer 12

true

Question 13

What is the church sect theory

Answer 13

involves two religious organizations (churches and sects) which was developed in order to address stratification and secularization tensions

Question 14

What is the church sect stratification tension

Answer 14

tension between upper and lower classes in religious organizations

Question 15

What is the church sect secularization tension

Answer 15

tension between religious organization and cultural environment

Question 16

What is the main difference between church and a sect

Answer 16

churches compromise with social order, but a sect rejects social order

Question 17

Details about a church

Answer 17

1. low tension with environment
2. image of god is remote
3. audience oriented
4. meets the needs of upper and middle class

Question 18

Details about sect

Answer 18

1. high tension with environment
2. Image of god is close active
3. participant oriented
4. meets needs of lower class

Question 19

What is seculariztion

Answer 19

move away from religious, supernatural explanations and toward worldly ones.
-secularization leads to a shift in the sources of religion, not to the elimination of religion

Question 20

What are some results of secularization

Answer 20

revival and innovation/cult formation (new religious movement)

Question 21

What is the concept of a religious economy

Answer 21

The market place of competing faiths within a society.

Question 22

What is the term for when organizations break away and form a less worldly form of the conventional faith

Answer 22

revival

Question 23

what is the term for when new religions can arise in societies

Answer 23

religious innovation or cult formation

Question 24

What do all religions have in common

Answer 24

They involve questions about ultimate meaning like does life have a purpose or why are we here

Question 25

what is the definition of super natural

Answer 25

to beings or forces beyond nature who are able to suspend, alter, ignore, and create physical forces.

Question 26

What is the definition of religion

Answer 26

socially organized patterns of belief and practices that concern ultimate meaning and assume the existence of the supernatural.