Intro Comparative Religion Quiz review

When such actions are predictable and repeated rather than spontaneous (examples Communion and Baptism)

worship the only true deity and label all as “pagans” or “nonbelievers.” ("My religion is the on only true religion)

no sense of a personal Creator God in such understandings (impersonal), care about Ultimate Reality instead

Humans invented religion, man made. The supernatural is imaginary. Deities are projections of human qualities.Freud/Marx

daily lives without any reference to religion: all focus in on material life (separation of Church and State)

the symbolic stories that communities use to explain the universe and their place within it (Ramanaya)

to perceive truth directly, beyond the senses, beyond the limits of human reason, beyond blind belief (a union with god)

images borrowed from the material world that are similar to ineffable spiritual experiences. (the Cross)

Religion is useful. Durkheim,religion as a glue holds human societies together. Faith has positive physiological effects

is the belief that there is no deity or God (no concrete proof that god exists)

the inner dimensions of religion (such as experiences, beliefs and values)

encounters with unseen reality (realization, illumination, coming home) (think of the Buddha)

the being is worshiped as a singular form (One God)

Some form of ultimate reality exists. People accept in a sacred reality on the basis of holy books (Enlightenment)

many attributes and forms of the divine are emphasized (many Deities)

same indescribable thing in different languages or referring to different aspect of the same unknowable Whole (same God)

systems of doctrines proclaimed as absolutely true and accepted as such (absolute faith)

is the realm of extraordinary, apparently purposeful, but generally imperceptible forces.