Religion Flashcards
Which is the most popular religion in the world with over 2.1 billion adherents?
CHRISTIANITY
Who was elected as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury in February 2013?
JUSTIN WELBY
Which Christian denomination has a magazine called The Watchtower and places of worship known as Kingdom Halls?
JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
Also known as Siddhartha Gautama who was born in Lumbini in Nepal possibly around 563 BCE?
BUDDHA
Who founded the Franciscans religious orders in 1209?
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Generally known as the Religious Society of Friends which Christian group was founded by George Fox who “bade them tremble at the word of the Lord”?
QUAKERS
Instituted by Jesus and entrusted to the Church there are how many sacraments of the Catholic Church?
SEVEN
In the Roman Catholic Church what name is given to the act of the Pope declaring that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; and is usually a stage in the process of canonisation?
BEATIFICATION
Which Catholic religious orders founded by a Spanish priest are known as ‘Black Friars’ because of the black cloak they wear over their white habits?
DOMINICANS
Who founded Sikhism and was the first of the ten Sikh Gurus?
GURU NANAK
Which two-letter sacred sound and important spiritual icon in Hinduism is also a mantra in a number of other Indian religions?
OM
Established by Saint Mark in the 1st century AD what is the largest Christian Church in Egypt and northeast Africa?
COPTIC (ORTHODOX)
Approximately 62% of the population of which US state are reported to be members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
UTAH
Which Benedictine monk became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597?
AUGUSTINE
What name is given to a meeting of the College of Cardinals convened to elect a new Pope?
(PAPAL) CONCLAVE
In which religion has it been traditional for dead Parsis to be taken to Towers of Silence where the corpses are eaten by vultures?
ZOROASTRIANISM
Which Jewish diaspora population coalesced in the Iberian Peninsula c. 1000 AD?
SEPHARDI JEWS
Who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General?
(SAINT) IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
What is the name of the religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan?
EID AL-FITR (OR EID UL-FITR)
The Golden Temple the holiest Gurdwara of Sikhism is located in which city in India?
AMRITSAR
A form of almsgiving which of the Five Pillars of Islam is a religious obligation for all Muslims who meet the necessary criteria of wealth?
ZAKAT
Which faith which emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind and is governed by the Universal House of Justice in Haifa was founded in Persia in the 19th century?
BAHA’I
Which religious symbol considered sacred in Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism takes its name from Sanskrit and denotes a ‘lucky or auspicious object’?
SWASTIKA
Who was the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement? He was killed by a mob who stormed the jailhouse where he was being held in 1844.
JOSEPH SMITH
What position in the Church of England was held by Richard Chartres from November 1995 to February 2017?
BISHOP OF LONDON
Twelvers Zaidi and Ismaili are the three largest branches of which denomination of Islam?
SHIA
What is the name of the mass Hindu pilgrimage of faith in which Hindus gather to bathe in a sacred or holy river? The fair alternates between Nasik Allahabad Ujjain and Haridwar every three years.
KUMBH MELA
The start of the Islamic lunar calendar in which year did Muhammad and his followers migrate from Mecca to Medina?
622
In which form of Protestant Church government is the church administered locally by the minister with a group of elected elders of equal rank and regionally and nationally by representative courts of ministers and elders?
PRESBYTERIANISM
What term is used by Muslims for someone who has completely memorised the Qur’an?
HAFIZ
In Christian art John the Evangelist is symbolically represented by which bird?
EAGLE
What is the name of the address and apostolic blessing given to the city of Rome and to the entire world by the Pope each Easter and Christmas from Saint Peter’s Basilica?
URBI ET ORBI
Which Jewish festival that commemorates the deliverance from Haman’s plot to annihilate all the Jews of the Persian Empire is also known as the Festival of Lots?
PURIM
What name is given to the summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to the cessation of suffering and the achievement of self-awakening?
(NOBLE) EIGHTFOLD PATH
Which of the external articles of faith known as the Five Ks of Sikhism is a steel bracelet and is worn by all initiated Sikhs?
KARA
According to Jewish law boys become accountable for their actions and become a bar mitzvah when they reach what age?
THIRTEEN
What name is given to the change whereby according to Catholic doctrine the bread and the wine used in the sacrament of the Eucharist become not merely as by a sign or a figure but also in reality the body and blood of Christ?
TRANSUBSTANTIATION
Who is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical Taoism and is also revered as a deity in Taoism and traditional Chinese religion?
LAOZI (OR LAO-TZU OR LAO-TZE)
Derived from the Greek word for ‘knowledge’ which movement of the 2nd century Christian Church taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being?
GNOSTICISM
What name is given to Christian religious orders which depend directly on the charity of the people for their livelihood?
MENDICANT ORDERS
Zen is a school of which branch of Buddhism whose name is derived from the Sanskrit for ‘great vehicle’?
MAHAYANA
The origins of the Plymouth Brethren are usually traced to which city where several groups of Christians met informally to celebrate the Lord’s Supper together in the 1820s?
DUBLIN
Who is venerated as the first recorded British Christian martyr?
SAINT ALBAN
Which set of ideas and practices regarding the metaphysical relationship between the mind and body was created by L. Ron Hubbard and is practiced by followers of Scientology?
DIANETICS
Born in Manchester who joined the Shakers in 1758 then became the leader of the community and moved the nine-person group to New York in 1774?
ANN LEE
Literally meaning ‘continuous flow’ what is the cycle of birth life death rebirth or reincarnation within Buddhism Hinduism Jainism and Sikhism?
SAMSARA
Which 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury later canonised as a saint ‘seized the devil by the nose with red hot tongs’ according to legend?
DUNSTAN
The Panacea Society founded in Bedford in 1919 took Its inspiration was the teachings of which Devonshire prophetess?
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
Methodism was founded by John Wesley Charles Wesley and which other Anglican cleric who was a friend of Benjamin Franklin?
GEORGE WHITEFIELD
A Pennsylvania German noun meaning ‘running around’ what is the term for a rite of passage during adolescence used in some Amish and Mennonite communities?
RUMSPRINGA
