Anthropology of Religion

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Religious Beliefs and Symbols

True/False Quiz


1	The specifics of a Seder meal are never altered.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	Expressive culture is found only in religion.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Projection is the treatment of internal images and ideas as if they were externally real.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	There is no distinctively religious emotion.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	According to Emile Durkheim, rituals elicit and perpetuate these feelings that inspire conformity to the norms of the group.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	According to Turner, sensory symbols evoke powerful feelings while ideological symbols transform those feelings to loyalty.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	The primary tension in Ndembu society is the tension between matrilineality and patrilocality.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	By "numinous," Rudolf Otto meant the vague perception of a difficult-to-describe spiritual power.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Roy Rappaport contends that the meanings communicated in ritual transform whatever emotions participants in religious rituals into socially approved attitudes.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Mysticism is a sense of timeless and spaceless union or oneness with the divine that is accompanied by profoundly positive feelings.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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