Chapter 1 Self Quiz - True/False

. "Religiously unaffiliated" is a term for people who do not adhere to any religious beliefs.

. It is possible for a person to practice more than one religion.

. The primary aim of the academic study of religion is to determine which religious traditions are correct.

. Tribal identity was collective in part because everyone shared the same hunting–gathering activities.

. Orthodoxy is a part of only Western religions.

. Socialism was not a movement until the postmodern period.

. Throughout history, much of religion has centered on power and meaning in relation to human destiny.

. In premodern culture religion played the decisive role in explaining and ordering life.

. Religious experiences are defined as those focused on a belief in God or gods.

. In the earliest religious stories, time was viewed as linear.

. A postmodern edict would argue that only religious knowledge—and not scientific knowledge—is relative.

. Colonialism decimated many premodern religions and cultures.

. The scientific worldview, which was part of modern culture, was highly respectful of premodern beliefs.

. In the myths of history, time is the enemy.

. In the myths of nature, time brings sickness, decline, and death.

. Sympathetic imagination means that we feel sorry for people who are different from us.

. Anticolonial reactions to the oppressions of colonialism often included a resurgence of religion influence.

. In modern culture religion played the decisive role in explaining and ordering life.

. Postmodern trends incited a collapse of all metanarratives, causing religion to drastically curtail in the public realm.

. The final decades of the twentieth century brought a global religious resurgence.

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