Practice Quiz: Chapter 12

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. Statistically speaking, Canada is dominated by which religious group?

a) Hinduism correct incorrect

b) Anglicanism correct incorrect

c) Judaism correct incorrect

d) Christianity correct incorrect

e) Protestantism correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to the process by which religion increasingly loses its influence?

a) Modernization correct incorrect

b) Atheism correct incorrect

c) Sacrilege correct incorrect

d) Secularization correct incorrect

e) Theology correct incorrect

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. The Quiet Revolution occurred in which province?

a) Ontario correct incorrect

b) Quebec correct incorrect

c) British Columbia correct incorrect

d) Saskatchewan correct incorrect

e) Alberta correct incorrect

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. During which era did science begin to replace religion?

a) Quiet Revolution correct incorrect

b) World War I correct incorrect

c) Enlightenment correct incorrect

d) Rationalization correct incorrect

e) Capitalism correct incorrect

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. Which sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are the core sections dealing with the protection of religious beliefs in Canada?

a) 1a and 13 correct incorrect

b) 1a and 15 correct incorrect

c) 2a and 13 correct incorrect

d) 2a and 15 correct incorrect

e) None of the above correct incorrect

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. The religious landscape of Canada has changed dramatically. Between 1981 and 1991 what percentage increase was there in other non-Christian "religions"?

a) 144 per cent correct incorrect

b) 122 per cent correct incorrect

c) 100 per cent correct incorrect

d) 88 per cent correct incorrect

e) 44 per cent correct incorrect

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. In the 2011 census, what percentage of the Canadian population claimed they had "no religious affiliation"?

a) 38.7 per cent correct incorrect

b) 25.2 per cent correct incorrect

c) 23.9 per cent correct incorrect

d) 16.7 per cent correct incorrect

e) Less than 10 per cent correct incorrect

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. What framework of analysis did Durkheim help to develop for studying religion?

a) Conflict theory correct incorrect

b) Functionalism correct incorrect

c) Symbolic interactionism correct incorrect

d) Feminist theory correct incorrect

e) Substantive theory correct incorrect

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. Which term is used by sociologists to describe religion that focuses on the transcendent nature of the country or nation?

a) Nationalism correct incorrect

b) Communism correct incorrect

c) Civil religion correct incorrect

d) Popular religion correct incorrect

e) Lived religion correct incorrect

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. What term do sociologists use instead of "cult"?

a) New religious movement correct incorrect

b) Sect correct incorrect

c) Denomination correct incorrect

d) Unofficial religion correct incorrect

e) Church correct incorrect

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. For Marx, religion contributed to a social cohesion in that it was fundamentally a reflection of the society in which it existed and it was, at its core, a social phenomenon.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. In Canada, there are certain exemptions for religions as charitable organizations.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. In Canada, we have a legal document enforcing the separation of church and state.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Since the terrorist attacks on various locations in the United States, discussions about the link between religion and violence have become more frequent.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Lived religion can be separated from other practices of everyday life, from the ways that humans do other necessary and important things, or from other cultural structures and discourses.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Sociologists of religion do not care whether god exists or whether Raelians have really had contact with extraterrestrial beings.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Violence against women within religious communities is made even more complex by the fact that such communities are reluctant to admit the existence of violence within the family. This has been called the "holy hush" of denial.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Participation in organized religion has increased in Canada.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Sociologists in Canada have always taken the study of religion seriously.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Church-run residential schools went to great lengths to rid students of their Indigenous religious/spiritual traditions.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect