New Spirituality and Postmodernism Quiz

Question 0

T/F: According to New Spirituality, the universe began with the Big Bang

Answer 0

False

Question 1

Modernism is characterized by ____, ______, _____, and ______ as well as ______

Answer 1

belief in human reason, empiricism, science, technological progress, skepticism towards religion

Question 2

What is the political philosophy that links the oppression of women and the exploitation of the environment?

Answer 2

Ecofeminism

Question 3

T/F: Postmodernists accept the notion of universal objective reason

Answer 3

False

Question 4

T/F: According to postmodernism, there is no meaning in the text

Answer 4

True

Question 5

T/F: New spiritualists believe we can be free from the illusion of self through achieving enlightenment

Answer 5

True

Question 6

According to postmodernism, language functions as

Answer 6

A tool for power and manipulation

Question 7

T/F: According to postmodernism, universal truth can be known

Answer 7

False

Question 8

What is the environmental philosophy that contends that all living creatures should have legal rights?

Answer 8

Deep ecology

Question 9

T/F: According to postmodernism, words are about things

Answer 9

False

Question 10

Karma

Answer 10

The belief that good is returned to those who do good and vice versa

Question 11

T/F: The God of new spirituality is a personal force

Answer 11

False

Question 12

T/F: Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbiased truth claims about reality

Answer 12

False

Question 13

New spiritualists believe we can be temporarily free from the illusion of self through

Answer 13

yoga and meditation

Question 14

T/F: According to new spirituality, the source of religion isn’t God, it’s unconsciousness

Answer 14

False

Question 15

According to postmodernism, truth is

Answer 15

Socially constructed

Question 16

Anti-realism

Answer 16

belief that denies the existence or accessibility of an objective reality

Question 17

According to postmodernism, ____, _____, and ____ affect how we see the world

Answer 17

Culture, language, gender

Question 18

Three reality facts from new spirituality

Answer 18

Reality is eternal, reality is non-personal, reality is divine

Question 19

T/F: The Bhagavad Gita is the Hindu text that chronicles the conversations between Arjuna and Krishna

Answer 19

True

Question 20

T/F: Postmodernists claim that the notion of objective truth is used to oppress others

Answer 20

True

Question 21

_______ said “God is dead.”

Answer 21

Nietzsche

Question 22

T/F: New spiritualists accept the secular philosophy of materialism

Answer 22

False

Question 23

T/F: According to new spirituality, the source of our suffering is our ignorance re: consciousness

Answer 23

True

Question 24

Pantheism

Answer 24

belief that everything is God

Question 25

_____ has not contributed to new spirituality

Answer 25

Eastern religion

Question 26

_____, ________, _______, and ______ have contributed to new spirituality

Answer 26

Pop psychology, self-help teaching, scientific materialism, meditation

Question 27

T/F: Nietzsche predicted that once we killed our belief in God, truth, meaning, and morality would continue to exist

Answer 27

False

Question 28

T/F: Postmodernists don’t believe we can have objective knowledge

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Postmodernists doubt the objectivity of ______, ______, and _______

Answer 29

Evolutionary biology, science, math

Question 30

Reincarnation

Answer 30

Process by which the body passes away but the soul continues its quest for enlightenment in another form