For this assignment I need you to help me with 16 religion questions they are multiple choice and some true or false and fil in the blank you must get 13 correct.
Question 1
Religion is a field of study that uses many different disciplines.
Group of answer choices
True
False
Question 2
Theology, or the “study of the gods”, is only one of the disciplines used in the study of religion
Group of answer choices
True
False
Question 3
Although theologians believe in the religion that they study, they must still follow the academic rules of the study of religion.
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True
False
Question 4
Another discipline that is used in the study of religion is literary criticism. How is literary criticism described?
Group of answer choices
It looks at authorship. That is, who is the REAL author as opposed to what tradition tells us.
It looks at author purpose, reliability, and transmission.
none of the above
Question 5
The science of interpretation is called _______________________
Question 6
Mircea Eliade thought religion was simply social and psychological phenomenon
Group of answer choices
True
False
Question 7
Indeed, to fail to identify a religious emotion, act, practice, etc. under the description the subject identifies it, is to misinterpret it. For instance, if a woman says that she received an answer to prayer and the scholar said that it was only a psychological phenomena, this would be an example of ___________
Question 8
Ideally, a student of religion will temporarily suspend their own beliefs and empathetically study another religion in order to try to understand how the followers of the religion understand it.
Group of answer choices
True
False
Question 9
Who claimed that the religion was rooted in sacred power.
Group of answer choices
Roger Caillois
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Rudolf Otto
Mircea Eliade
Question 10
Who claimed that religion is rooted in both the quest to acquire purity and the task of eliminating defilement.
Group of answer choices
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Sigmund Freud
Roger Cailloi
Rudolf Otto
Question 11
Ralph Otto coined the term numinous , to…
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talked about numbers
to describe a unique religious phenomenon that evokes a “creature-feeling” within a person when they come into contact with the holy
to explain early writing
to describe early society dynamics
Question 12
For Otto, the holy or the numinous stirs human emotions and evokes mysterium tremendum. What is the mysterium tremendum?
Group of answer choices
extraordinary reality
mysterious and beyond comprehension
evokes awe and dread
all of the above
Question 13
Who looked at how the sacred was manifested in the history of religions by looking at the contrast between the sacred and the profane.
Group of answer choices
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Roger Caillois
Mircea Eliade
Rudolf Otto
Question 14
For Eliade, the sacred… (pick all that apply)
Group of answer choices
same as the profane
always manifests itself as something non-ordinary
Could be anything such as rocks, trees, human artifacts, etc.
can go from being an object of common use to something holy
Question 15
Eliade coins the word hierophany. What is a hierophany? (pick all that apply)
Group of answer choices
When something manifests itself as sacred,
means that the sacred appeared or that there is an opening to the holy or divine.
when you enter a church doorway from the street the doorway marks the break between the sacred (church) and the profane (street).
not on this earth, and cannot be touched or felt
Question 16
(fill in the blank)
The main difference between animal and human communication is that humans have a ___________ capacity.
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