QUIZ 1 TRUE 1 According to the first week s lecture the genetic fallacy in the study of religion refers to judging something based on some quality of its origin 2 Karl Marx described religion as the opium of the people 3 According to Bruce Lincoln the four aspects of religion include Transcendent Discourse Community Institutions and Practices 4 J Z Smith argues that religion is solely the creation of the scholar s study TRUE 5 Russell McCutcheon argues that religion is a universal feeling of absolute dependence 6 Within the Yoruba tradition what is the name of the figure who loves disorder trickster but also relays messages between the supreme god and the community ESHU 7 In the Yoruba religion gender serves little role and is not an important defining feature 8 Today there are more practitioners of the Yoruba than there are practitioners of of cultic activities FALSE Judaism TRUE 9 Most African religious communities do not have specific shrines for the worship of the supreme being though they have many shrines dedicated to the lesser spirits or deities whose job it is to assist humans in daily life TRUE 10 Andre Beteille in his article The Idea of Indigenous People argues that the term indigenous people is a little like the term native in colonial usage 11 According to the article by Ekechi Colonialism and Christianity in West Africa during European colonization of Africa some native peoples adopted the religion of the European conquerors in the hope of understanding the spiritual basis of their power while others looked to Christian missionaries for protection against the abuses of colonial rule and still others wanted to succeed in new colonial order and saw a missionary education as the essential first step TRUE 12 In the article Colonialism and Christianity in West Africa Ekechi demonstrates how Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries worked together to build ecumenical Christians schools and churches FALSE 13 In the article Colonialism and Christianity in West Africa Ekechi argues that Igbo receptivity to European formal education spurred Christian missions to adopt education as the most expeditious means of spreading Christianity TRUE QUIZ 2 1 Brahman is world soul Infinity 2 According to oxtoby Indias legal system uses Hindu as a kind of catch all category Jainas Buddhists and Sikhs are all officially covered by the Hindu umbrella TRUE 3 The Upanishads are the oldest sections of each collection of the Vedas and are dated to 1500 BCE False 4 Dirks argues the caste system in India today is an unchanged survival of ancient India a single system that reflects a core civilization and is a basic expression on Indian tradition FALSE 5 Dirks argues that under colonialism cultural forms in societies newly classified as traditional were reconstructed and transformed by colonial knowledge which created new categories and oppositions between colonizers and colonized European and Asian modern and traditional West and East TRUE 6 The Ramayana is a story that is intended to provide information and instruction about which of the following topics Family 7 For some Hindus Devi is recognized as the supreme deity and the creator of the universe True 8 According to Diana Eck what makes a diverse society truly pluralistic The language not just of difference but of engagement involvement and participation 9 According to Diana Eck being pluralistic means that you should not think that your own religious tradition is distinctive False 10 According to Diana Eck the ultimate goal of a pluralistic society is tolerance of differences TRUE 11 According to Doniger the Mahabharata played a key role in shaping Gender and social roles in Indian society QUIZ 3 1 According to Nicholas Dirks Brahmins and upper caste Hindus tried to advocate that the ritual of hook swinging was a key facet of Hindu ritual TRUE 2 According to NYT the U S Justice Department draws a clear distinction between Sikhs and Muslims False 3 As reported by NYT which of the following things are Sikhs NOT known for The religion is known for promoting women to positions of power and has championed social justice Not known for maintaining dogmatic theological positions against Hinduism and Islam 4 The NYT argues that British colonists favored Sikhs over Muslims or Hindus in India because they viewed them as more Western TRUE 5 In the film A Dream in Doubt Rana Singh Sodhi argues that Sikhism is compatible with the American Dream or American concepts of religion TRUE 6 The founder of the Sikh tradition was Guru Nanak 7 According to Oxtoby in Sikhism Langar promoted egalitarianism community service and unity through the preparation serving of a communal meal 8 In Sikhism women cannot serve in leadership positions FALSE 9 In Sikhism the 5Ks refer to a system of local government FALSE 10 In Sikhism the four notions of Guruship include the community God Scripture and Teacher QUIZ 4 1 According to Oxtoby Theravada Buddhism offered lay people the opportunity to strive for enlightenment and liberation alongside the bhikshu False 2 According to Oxtoby Siddhartha Gautama was born into severe poverty False 3 Buddhism originated in which of the following countries India 4 According to Oxtoby which of the following issue is the Noble Truths of Buddhism primarily focused on The way to extinguish suffering 5 According to Lopez s chapter from Curators of the Buddha Western scholars distrusted native Buddhists and the native was portrayed as merely a supplement to the texts they wanted to read Thus the answers that the native gave had to be checked against the original text TRUE 6 According to Lopez the documents that Hodgson used to construct and understand Buddhism came from which of the following cities Nepal 7 Lopez argues that the original western scholars who performed the first studies of Buddhism did NOT Study Buddhism in its specific geographic historical locations 8 Lopez argues that the goal of studying Buddhism should be to delegitimate the transcendental status of certain Buddhist statements and practices by tracing their past effects True 9 Lopez argues that western scholars initially believed that native Tibetans were ignorant superstitious and irrational True 10 lopez argues that prior to the chinese invasion tibet had great inequalities with power monopolized by an elite composed of incarnate lamas and monks from the great Geluk monasteries TRUE
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