Unit 8: Quiz

Below is a sample of questions that will appear on the quiz. Use them to guide your reading. A subset of these will appear on the quiz. 

Chapter 11

1. One sign of a religious cult is that the movement

2. The word pagan comes from pagus, a Latin word that means

3. The eight significant annual festivals of Wicca are called

4. A coven is

5. A form of contemporary paganism that is popular in England is

6. The Yoruba religion

7. The gods of the Yoruba-derived religions are often called

8. Sometimes, when Santería practitioners are in trance,

9. Literally, Theosophy means

10. Theosophy shows many similarities to

11. One of the founders of Theosophy was

12. Eurhythmy is the name in Theosophy for a spiritually oriented form of

13. The Church Universal and Triumphant combines elements of Theosophy and

14. The founder of Scientology was

15. The Bridge is the name for

16. In Scientology, the state of full mental liberation is called

17. Literally, Falun Gong means

18. What is the name of the founder of Falun Gong?

19. The major practice of Falun Gong is

20. In a vision, the founder of Cao Dai saw what?

21. Cao Dai includes many beliefs that come from

22. The organizational structure of Cao Dai is influenced strongly by

23. The majority of the followers of Cao Dai live in

24. The name Rastafarianism

25. The most important early figure of Rastafarianism was

26. Rastafarianism makes frequent use of what book?

27. A well-known representative of Rastafarianism was

28. Reggae is

29. Baha’i emerged from

30. The word Bab is the title given to the forerunner of the founder of Baha’i. The title means

31. The founder of Baha’i was

32. The religion of Baha’i is universalistic and even works for the establishment of

33. The founder of Baha’i wrote

34. The Baha’i religious calendar

35. The Baha’i faith is

36. In Wicca, the name of the winter solstice festival is

37. In Wicca, the new-year festival in late October is

38. The early Druids were written about by the

39. The Druids apparently worshipped

40. Literally, “Druid” is thought to mean

41. The English site used by modern Druids for their summer solstice rituals is this:

42. In Santería, the goddess of love and marriage is

43. The founder of Anthroposophy was

44. The author of Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine was

45. Cao Dai speaks of how many “alliances”?

 

 Chapter 12

1. The desire for a separation of church and state came about as the result of

2. The view of religion as an outdated method for providing solutions to life’s problems was espoused by

3. Gender-neutral prayers

4. The Catholic Church has worked to accommodate itself to the modern world, as shown by

5. The environmentalism movement is least strong in what regard?

6. A modern artist who has shown great sensitivity in the portrayal of flowers at very close range is

7. Abraham Maslow was a psychologist interested in spirituality, who talked about

8. Applied science is

9. Living and thinking without reference to a religion is called

10. T. H. Huxley, an English biologist, created what term?

11. James Morton, Dean Emeritus of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, has said that religion is an old word for the reality of relationship, and that the new word for that reality is

12. The artist who created a Japanese garden and spent more than forty years painting pictures of it was

13. John Muir

14. It is possible to see in the comic-book figure of Superman an underlying

15. The person who became famous for photographing Yosemite was

16. French impressionist music, such as that of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, was often inspired by

17. The first World Parliament of Religions was held in 1893 in

18. The leader who represented Hinduism at the first World Parliament of Religions was

19. The founder of which of these Christian denominations was female?