Chapter 9 Self Quiz - Fill ins

. _______ Meditation is an example of an Asian religion moving West.

. During the Cultural Revolution in China, Chairman Mao's _______ Book became the sacred text for the people.

. The reintroduction of religion under the guise of indigenous cultural history and tradition is called _______ religion.

. The Chinese Communist civil religion presented _______ as leader of the nation, whose words and teachings were seen as a critical element of national salvation.

. According to Robert Bellah, American civil religion views _______ as father of the United States.

. The difference between fundamentalists and modernists in the Euro-American world stems from an argument about the impact of _______ on traditional religious belief.

. In postmodern culture, the choice between "_______" is said to be intellectually undecidable and so is decided pragmatically.

. The growth of new age religiousness is deeply rooted in the ______ reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment.

. The _______ form of new age religious movements continues to privatize religion.

. Traditional religious fundamentalists seek to preserve the sacredness of _______.

. Contemporary fundamentalism is a quest for or reassertion of religious _______, authenticity, and community.

. "Zen" means _______.

. Secular fundamentalists express a desire to preserve the sacredness of the scientific and _______ way of life.

. Everywhere in the world, _______ appears to be the earliest form of religious experience.

. The "City on a Hill" concept considered America to be a nation called by God to be a _______ to all nations.

. Gandhi and King were both convinced that religious communities must be committed to _______ to avoid future religious wars.

. A member of the Russian nobility, _______ experienced a religious conversion in his 50s and gave away all his wealth to spend the rest of his life serving the poor.

. The resurgence of ______ since the 1970s most likely represents the need to fill the vacuum created by the tendency of secularization to purge events of meaning.

. The Covid pandemic revealed how important religious _______ is to human life, especially during times of crisis.

. Religious postmodernism, like fundamentalism, rejects the modernist objective to _______ religion.

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