CH 1: Beginning your Study of Religions

What is the scientific study of groups and group behavior. It explains religion's role in society

What is Pluralism?

This dimension is often referred to as "Organizational Religion"

Which is an example of Buddhist and/or Hindu Intolerance?

Moral expectations for marriage & families fall under which dimension?

Devotional images, kneeling in prayer, poetry, hymns fall into this dimension

This is a study of the past using careful scholarly analysis, such as archeology and study of text in original languages

Shamans and Lifecycle Rituals are a special focus of what discipline?

Pilgrimages fall under which dimension?

Which is an example of an NRM?

Hope of life after death, or coping with death and suffering fall under this dimension

Belief that other religions may lead to salvation or at least have a significant but partial knowledge of the truth is?​

What is an atheist?

Which of these countries is a Theocracy?

Sigmund Freud thought religion was necessary to be psychologically whole

Which one of these did NOT lay groundwork for study of religion?

What is Cultural Anthropology?

What do Agnostics believe?

Creation of the world falls under what Dimension?

What is the study of a religion based on commitment to it, in order to promote it