Religious Studies Review
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Course Introduction
Religious Studies is an academic field that explores the diverse beliefs, practices, texts, and histories of the world's religions. This course examines the origins, development, and impact of various religious traditions, including but not limited to Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and indigenous faiths. Students will analyze sacred texts, rituals, and ethical systems, while considering the sociocultural, philosophical, and political roles that religion plays in shaping individual and collective identities. Through comparative and interdisciplinary approaches, the course encourages critical thinking about the influence of religion on contemporary issues and global affairs.
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Anthropology of Religion Magic and Witchcraft The 3rd Edition by Rebecca Stein Philip L Stein
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Chapter 1: The Anthropological Study of Religion
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Q1) The essentialist definition of religion emphasizes that region is the domain of the extraordinary.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Fore of New Guinea believe that the disease kuru is caused by evil forest spirits.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Two main ways that anthropologists organize societies are by:
A)culture area and food getting strategies
B)level of religious complexity and gender stratification
C)gender ratio and child rearing strategies
D)kinship system and language spoken
Answer: A
Q4) Anthropologists frequently apply the term primitive to small-scale societies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Mythology
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Q1) In Islam,God spoke to Mohammad in Arabic,and Arabic is used in ritual today.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Émile Durkheim used a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of myth and focused on the impact of myth on social structure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The evolutionary school in the nineteenth century associated myths with:
A)the "primitive period"
B)the transition to modern times
C)full modernity
D)the future
Answer: A
Q4) The Christian New Testament contains an apocalyptic myth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Religious Symbols
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Q1) All languages have a similar set of basic color terms in terms of number and meaning.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Lord Pakal died and was entombed in the Temple of the Inscriptions in Palenque on August 31,1123 B.C.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Differences in numbers of primary color terms in English and in Yoruba suggest that:
A)color terminology is determined by culture
B)the Yoruba language is more primitive than English
C)the Yoruba have a high frequency of color blindness
D)people in tropical areas see fewer colors
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Ritual
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Q1) Pharanoic circumcision is a type of genital alteration performed on females in many societies in North and East Africa.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Examples of rites of passage in American society would not include a:
A)wedding ceremony
B)funeral
C)high school graduation
D)Easter sunrise service
Q3) The Huichol journey:
A)reenacts the journey of the Ancient Ones
B)involves each person assuming the identify of a god
C)includes the eating of peyote which enables the Huichol to see what the gods see D)all of the above
Q4) The hajj is a pilgrimage that is a central part of the Islamic religion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Altered States of Consciousness and Religious Specialists
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Q1) Neurologist Oliver Sachs believes that the visions described by Hildegard of Bingen are likely to be associated with:
A)fasting
B)use of hallucinogenic drugs
C)migraines
D)self-inflicted pain
Q2) Peyote is used in rituals of:
A)the Holiness Church
B)the Native American Church
C)Vodou
D)San
Q3) Which of the following statements about religious use of pain is false:
A)Religious pain is often shared pain.
B)The pain may cause the person to enter an altered state of consciousness.
C)Pain may induce an euphoric state.
D)Religious pain often isolates the individual from the social group.
Q4) The goal of many religious altered states of consciousness is to achieve a unitary state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Religious Specialists
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Q1) A deity might communicate to a community through a prophet.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Korean shaman may be asked to:
A)guide the dead to the underworld
B)locate game for hunters
C)identify and remove layers of illness
D)travel along the Axis Mundi to the underworld
Q3) Shamans in Korea are usually women who have experienced some type of psychological stress in their lives.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A complex series of priesthoods where political authority is vested in the priesthood characterizes the:
A)Zuni
B)Akimel O'odham
C)Navaho
D)Cahuilla
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Chapter 7: Magic and Divination
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Q1) Important features of magic are that magic:
A)creates hypotheses and theories
B)comes to testable conclusions
C)deals only with empirical observations
D)assumes a causal relationship between things that look similar
Q2) Magic involves the use of plant material,called medicines,in which supernatural power resides among the:
A)Trobriand Islanders
B)Fore
C)Azande
D)Wiccans
Q3) Possession and prophecy are examples of deliberate inspirational divination.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Among the Trobriand Islanders,a "man with knowledge" is one who possesses technological knowledge as well as knowledge of magic.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Souls,ghosts,and Death
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Q1) Burials differ in different societies in many ways.Among these is:
A)the location of the grave
B)the position the body is placed in
C)objects placed in the grave with the body
D)all of the above
Q2) Death rituals or funerals serve many purposes among which is (are):
A)channeling the expressions of grief
B)determining the fate of the soul
C)protecting the community of ghosts
D)all of the above
Q3) The Yanomamö believe in:
A)several different souls that have different destinations after death
B)a single immortal soul that recycles from grandparent to grandchild
C)a perfect afterlife only for those people free of sin
D)the necessity of burial to preserve the soul for a coming new world
Q4) The Tana Toraja separate biological and social death in that social death occurs some time after biological death.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Gods and Spirits
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Q1) A study by Guy Swanson found that social characteristics of a group was predictive of the number and nature of supernatural beings
A)True
B)False
Q2) Generally speaking,all of the following are true about gods except:
A)they are individualized supernatural entities
B)they are anthropomorphic entities
C)they are human in origin
D)they are associated with a community or a segment of a community
Q3) The importance of Mary for Roman Catholicism is evident in:
A)the celebration of her birth and death
B)the many shrines and pilgrimage sites associated with her
C)worshippers directly addressing her for protection
D)all of the above
Q4) Gods such as "Separator of Seeds from Cotton" and "Winder into Ball" are found among the:
A)Yoruba
B)Ifugao
C)Dani
D)Shoshoni
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Chapter 10: Witchcraft
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Q1) Among the Azande,the diagnosis of an illness is confirmed by a medium through spirit possession.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hedonism and the symbol of a goat's head within an inverted pentagram refer to:
A)Wicca
B)Asatru
C)Satanism
D)Druidism
Q3) The study of witchcraft among the Azande of southern Sudan was conducted in the 1920s by:
A)Bronislaw Malinowski
B)Edward Tylor
C)James Frazer
D)E.E.Evans-Pritchard
Q4) Arthur Miller's play The Crucible used the Salem trials as an allegory for:
A)illegal immigration
B)McCarthyism
C)the use of alcohol during Prohibition
D)the breakup for the traditional family
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Chapter 11: Syncretism and Religious Movements
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Q1) Which of the following is true about Vodou deities?
A)God is a remote creator deity who is no longer directly involved with the everyday lives of the people
B)Catholic Saints are seen as manifestations of Vodou deities
C)during rituals deities will possess worshippers
D)all of the above
Q2) Wicca has been described as a polytheistic religion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Fundamentalism is found in a number of different religions,including Islam,Christianity,and Judaism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Branch Davidians were more of a political than a religious group.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Cargo Cults are high-demand forms of Christianity that developed in West Africa in the early twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
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