Lesson 1

Question 1

Is a collection of
cultural systems, belief
systems, and worldviews
that relate humanity to
spirituality and,
sometimes, to moral
values.

Answer 1

Religion

Question 2

Many religions
have narratives, symbols,
traditions, and sacred
histories that are
intended to give meaning
to life or to explain the
origin of life or the
universe.

T or F

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What is the Latin word of Religion?

Answer 3

Ligare

Question 4

It is a belief in the divine.

Answer 4

Religion

Question 5

RELIGION IS CLASSICALLY
UNDERSTOOD TO
MEAN THE LINKING
OF HUMAN AND
DIVINE.

T or F

Answer 5

T

Question 6

3 ELEMENTS THAT MAKE
SOMETHING A RELIGION?

Answer 6

B.R.E.
*Beliefs
*Rituals
*Ethics

Question 7

*BELIEFS give religion its
MIND
*RITUALS give religion its
SHAPE
*ETHICS give religion its
HEART

Answer 7

Eyy muna eyy

Question 8

*BELIEFS give religion its
MIND
*RITUALS give religion its
SHAPE
*ETHICS give religion its
HEART

Answer 8

Eyy muna eyy

Question 9

THEISTIC GOD, the concept of a being which is

There are 4.

Answer 9

✔purely spiritual
✔all good
✔all knowing
✔all powerful.

Question 10

It’s a belief in the existence of the theistic God.

Answer 10

Theism

Question 11

Disbelief the existence of theistic
God or any divine being.

Answer 11

Atheism

Question 12

Neither belief nor disbelief in
the existence of theistic God/any divine being.

Answer 12

Agnosticism

Question 13

Belief that inanimate objects (such as statues or mountains) have souls.

Answer 13

Animism

Question 14

It’s a belief in the multiplicity of gods.

(Ex. Hinduism)

Answer 14

Polytheism

Question 15

A belief that accepts the existence of many gods but worships one god as supreme.

Ex. Ancient Greek-Zeus

Answer 15

Henotheism

Question 16

monotheistic belief in a god who set the universe in motion and thereafter left it alone. Does not intervene in its workings or in human affairs.

Answer 16

Deism

Question 17

belief in one god, but not necessarily the theistic God.

Answer 17

Monotheism

Question 18

monotheistic belief that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe.

Believes that God is the universe.

Answer 18

Pantheism

Question 19

The ideas that make any religion what it is.

Answer 19

Beliefs

Question 20

the most important element because they give rise to and shape the ethics and the rituals of a faith.

Answer 20

Belief

Question 21

It puts a religion’s beliefs in an order that people
can understand.

Answer 21

Theology

Question 22

These are two religions that have a long tradition of theologies that are complex and sophisticated.

Answer 22

Christianity and Islam

Question 23

These are two religions that use stories, not systematic theologies, to convey their beliefs.

Answer 23

Judaism and Hinduism

Question 24

Zoroastrianism and Buddhism, combine both.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

These two religions are very ancient and developed before contact with the Greeks, who first
organized beliefs into a system.

Answer 25

Judaism and Hinduism

Question 26

In the ancient faiths, stories convey beliefs, and the impulse
to yank the beliefs out of the stories and put them down in
some systematic order would have been an insult to the
sacred texts.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

HOW THEY DEFINE MEMBERSHIP:

Answer 27

▪ Tribal religions define members of the faith not by belief but by blood.
▪ Many Native American religions are like Judaism in this respect.
▪ You have to be born into the tribe or culture in order to share the faith of the tribe.
▪ If you’re born into a tribal religion, what you believe doesn’t matter very much; you’re a member whether you like it or not and whether you believe in the religion or not.

Question 28

The Hebrew Bible is also called

Answer 28

Tanakh