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Chapter 1 Self Quiz - True/False
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"Religiously unaffiliated" is a term for people who do not adhere to any religious beliefs.
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It is possible for a person to practice more than one religion.
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The primary aim of the academic study of religion is to determine which religious traditions are correct.
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Tribal identity was collective in part because everyone shared the same hunting–gathering activities.
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Orthodoxy is a part of only Western religions.
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Socialism was not a movement until the postmodern period.
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Throughout history, much of religion has centered on power and meaning in relation to human destiny.
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In premodern culture religion played the decisive role in explaining and ordering life.
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Religious experiences are defined as those focused on a belief in God or gods.
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In the earliest religious stories, time was viewed as linear.
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A postmodern edict would argue that only religious knowledge—and not scientific knowledge—is relative.
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Colonialism decimated many premodern religions and cultures.
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The scientific worldview, which was part of modern culture, was highly respectful of premodern beliefs.
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In the myths of history, time is the enemy.
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In the myths of nature, time brings sickness, decline, and death.
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Sympathetic imagination means that we feel sorry for people who are different from us.
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Anticolonial reactions to the oppressions of colonialism often included a resurgence of religion influence.
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In modern culture religion played the decisive role in explaining and ordering life.
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Postmodern trends incited a collapse of all metanarratives, causing religion to drastically curtail in the public realm.
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The final decades of the twentieth century brought a global religious resurgence.
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