Comparative Religion midterm

Question 1

Which Jewish Holiday is the holiest day of the Jewish year?

Accepted Answer

Yom Kippur

Question 2

Where is the Axis Mundi for the African Yorubans?

Accepted Answer

Ife

Question 3

What is a Tallit?

Accepted Answer

A shawl that is worn as a reminder of the duties and obligations of a Jew

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT included in the social dimension of religion?

Accepted Answer

Transcendence

Question 5

What is the name of the tool used to touch the Torah?

Accepted Answer

Yad

Question 6

Which of these groups was isolated and wrote the dead sea scrolls?

Accepted Answer

Essenes

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT a part of cyclical cosmology?

Accepted Answer

resurrection

Question 8

Which Orisha is the patron of women, the ocean, and is the mother of all?

Accepted Answer

Yemaya

Question 9

Which Jewish holiday includes the use of a shofar?

Accepted Answer

Rosh Hashanah

Question 10

What is the understanding of the nature and origin of the universe and religion?

Accepted Answer

Cosmology

Question 11

What do the Lakota Native wear during a Wicipi?

Accepted Answer

regalia

Question 12

Who developed the concept ‘the 7 dimensions of religion?’

Accepted Answer

Ninian Smart

Question 13

Which Jewish holiday is known as the Feast of the Tabernacles?

Accepted Answer

Sukkot

Question 14

Which of these religions have a tiered and horizontal cosmology?

Accepted Answer

African Yoruba

Question 15

Which of the following modern Judaism movements is the most traditional and strictly follows the Torah?

Accepted Answer

orthodox judaism

Question 16

Definition: how religion functions within a culture

Accepted Answer

anthropology

Question 17

What is the purpose of the sweat lodge for the Lakota Natives?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 18

In Jewish ethical living, how many mitzvot, or “commandments” are there?

Accepted Answer

613

Question 19

Which creation account’s message was to not get drunk?

Accepted Answer

African Yoruba - Olorun climbing down gold chain

Question 20

Which of these is NOT one of the dimensions of Olam Ha-Ba (The Jewish Afterlife)?

Accepted Answer

Haftarah

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