Fall '24 World Religions Final

In Hinduism, the _________ is the eternal self

Religion begins with

According to Islam, who appeared to Muhammad in a dream on the Night of Power and Excellence?

The belief that divine reality exists in everything is called _______________.

In Hinduism, this is the wheel of rebirth

The ___________ dimension of religion includes formal worship practice, which often involves re-enacting a myth.

For Hindus, Brahman is the

All Muslims are required to pray how often each day?

Some forms of spiritual fulfillment involve _____________, the overcoming of normal limitations of the human condition

Which of the following concepts is not one of Hinduism’s four goals of life?

The primary sources of information about Jesus’ life are _______.

What questions does religion seek to respond to?

It is most accurate to think of the Jews as _______

Most religions teach that spiritual fulfillment is closely related to some form of ________ from death.

The basic dimensions of a religious tradition include

The Noble Eightfold Path sets forth _______.

Suffering is an important aspect of the ________ , one of the basic concerns of religion.

In Judaism, Torah defines _______

Buddhism holds that salvation must be won through _______.

The social dimension of religion promotes all of the following EXCEPT

Which two things enrich our study of world religions?

The word Muslim means _______.

A religion that includes a belief in a personal god or gods is

Friedrich Max Muller noted that to know just one religion is to know

For Buddhists, Gautama the Buddha is _______.

In Buddhism, Gautama finally attained enlightenment when he _______.

Fasting during Ramadan helps Muslims to _______.

The _______ dimension of religion deals with how we are to act while living in the world.

In some forms of __________, the individual becomes one with ultimate reality through inward contemplation.

Jews refer to the Hebrew Bible as the _______.

Most indigenous religions believe that the boundaries between the human and supernatural realms are

Jews believe that God is _______.

God’s name appears in the Bible in the Hebrew equivalents of the letters _______.

Cathedrals, temples, statues, and sacred places in nature are all examples of which dimension of religion?

In Hinduism, a person’s particular dharma is determined by his or her _______.

The Gospel authors strove mainly to _______.

Arabic for “exertion” or “struggle.”

Indigenous religious traditions are generally the traditions of

Whom did God call to be the father of a great nation, the first patriarch of the Jewish people?

Basic features of all indigenous religious traditions include

What are some different ways of understanding ultimate reality?

The worship of more than one god is called

Of the following beliefs or features, which one does Buddhism not share with Hinduism?

The second large-scale revolt the Jews waged against Romans ended in AD 135 when the Romans _______.

Which of the following statements does not describe what it means to be a Christian?

The understanding of the nature of the universe is called

_______ received the Law at Mount Sinai and is traditionally regarded as the Torah’s author.

This word literally means “reading” or “recitation.”

One important approach for studying religions is _________, the capacity to see things from another person's perspective

Many world religions include sacred stories that are passed down from one generation to the next. These are called