Chapter 1 True/False Self-Quiz (Level 2)

. The academic study of religion has been an important field of study in universities for several centuries.

. Neither Freud nor Marx ever tried actually to define religion; rather, they tried to explain it away.

. Bruce Lincoln's definition of religion could not leave room for an atheistic tradition.

. Monotheism is the belief in one god who is more powerful than the rest.

. In monotheistic religions, the world is normally depicted as a kind of illusion, somehow not altogether real or permanently abiding.

. The traditional Catholic doctrine of purgatory anticipates an intermediary destiny somewhere between the perfect bliss of heaven and the horrible agony of hell.

. Rudolf Otto gives preference to the mystical experience, a category that includes such phenomena as Buddhist nirvana.

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