Chapter 14: Religion

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The declining significance of religion is known as which of these?

a. atheism

b. agnosticism

c. secularization

d. religiosity

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Commercialism Encroaches on a Holy City

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Who believed that religion brings pleasure or consolation to believers who think they are incapable of changing their distressing social conditions?

a. Max Weber

b. Karl Marx

c. Émile Durkheim

d. Georg Simmel

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Émile Durkheim argued that all human experience could be divided into two categories, the ______ and the ______.

a. ordinary; extraordinary

b. sacred; profane

c. plain; special

d. mechanical; organic

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Émile Durkheim contended that religion is the basis of which of these?

a. ritual

b. organic solidarity

c. collective conscience

d. the profane

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Vaughn is doing social research. He notes that different types of religious groups seem to produce different types of personalities. His research is most closely in line with which social theorist?

a. Max Weber

b. Karl Marx

c. Émile Durkheim

d. Georg Simmel

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Which of these is a social phenomenon that consists of beliefs about the sacred; practices or rituals; and the community that shares similar beliefs and practices?

a. education

b. church

c. religion

d. faith

Learning Objective: 14.2: Define religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is Religion?

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Which of these is an idea that explains the world and identifies what should be sacred?

a. belief

b. ritual

c. attitude

d. religion

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Belief

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Most religions have a story about how and why the world was created. What is this called?

a. an origin story

b. a cosmology

c. a cosmogony

d. a theology

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Belief

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. According to the chapter text, one of the most difficult things for any religion is which of these?

a. to explain why we are here.

b. to explain why other religions exist.

c. to explain suffering.

d. to explain the signs of a higher power without scientific evidence.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Belief

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. Marriage and graduating from high school are examples of which of these?

a. rituals

b. rites of passage

c. beliefs

d. civil religion

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ritual

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Amitra is participating in a religious ceremony that takes part over two days. These two days away from ordinary reality mark which of these?

a. a ritual

b. a transition

c. a liminal period

d. a rite of passage

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ritual

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Which of these is an example of a rite of passage?

a. taking your driver’s license examination

b. going to synagogue

c. getting married

d. visiting a friend’s religious group

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ritual

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Which of these accurately demonstrates the negative relationship between wealth and religiosity, according to the chapter text?

a. People living in richer nations are more religious than those in poorer nations.

b. People living in poorer nations are more religious than those in richer nations.

c. People in the poor neighborhoods of rich countries are more religious than richer areas in the same countries.

d. More churches exist in poorer countries.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. In which of these ways is the U.S. an exception when it comes to religion?

a. More of the U.S. population rates religion as important than wealthy countries.

b. More of the U.S. population rates religion as important than other countries with similar levels of Christianity.

c. Less of the U.S. population rates religion as important than other wealthy countries.

d. Less of the U.S population rates religion as important than other countries with similar levels of Christianity.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. According to the chapter text, in which region do countries report the highest importance of religion?

a. countries in parts of Asia, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa

b. countries in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean

c. countries in Western Europe and North America

d. countries in Central America and South America

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Each year, the Lopez family spends time visiting national historical monuments in Virginia and Washington, D.C. This ritual is part of which of these?

a. family religion

b. state religion

c. civil religion

d. ecclesiastic religion

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Civil Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. What is the term for the beliefs, experiences, and rituals that provide a sense of collective national identity?

a. patriotic religion

b. state religion

c. capitalist religion

d. civil religion

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Civil Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Jamal’s religious services have at least 2,000 people attending each week. Which of these does Jamal likely attend?

a. a sect

b. a megachurch

c. a church

d. a cult

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the main components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Religion as a Form of Consumption

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Religious institutions with pluralistic worldviews tend to be more ______, whereas those with more homogeneous populations tend to be more ______.

a. decentralized; centralized

b. liberal; conservative

c. sect-like; church-like

d. strict; lenient

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Religious Institutions

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. Sects and churches can be said to be which of these?

a. religious organizations from two different religions

b. religious organizations from two different global regions

c. two poles on a continuum of religious organization

d. two poles on a continuum of religious belief systems

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Types of Religious Institutions

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. A group who believes in a shared religious message, wants to remain apart from society, and admits only new members who conform to the group’s norms exemplifies which of these?

a. church

b. cult

c. ecclesia

d. sect

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sects

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Which of these is a highly organized form of religion with professional leaders that is made up of people from a variety of social class backgrounds who were typically born into the group?

a. church

b. cult

c. ecclesia

d. sect

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Churches

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Which of these is the best example of church in its strictest interpretation based on Ernst Troeltsch’s definition?

a. the contemporary Roman Catholic Church

b. the Christian megachurch

c. the Jehovah’s Witnesses

d. the Anglican Church in England

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Churches

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Which of these groups would sociologists identify as a Denominations?

a. Lutherans

b. Nxvim

c. Muslims

d. Jehovah Witnesses

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Denominations

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. A Denominations is most likely to have which of these characteristics?

a. members who have a conversion experience

b. a positive view of the larger society

c. untrained clergy

d. a charismatic leader

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Denominations

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Which of these tends to be made up of a new, innovative, small and exclusive group with new beliefs that are at odds with established religions?

a. church

b. cult

c. ecclesia

d. sect

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cults and New Religious Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Which of these forms does a cult most resemble?

a. a sect

b. a church

c. a Denominations

d. a business

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cults and New Religious Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

28. Sami has just joined a small, new, group that has never been associated with another religious tradition but claims to have discovered eternal truths. Her group encourages her to NOT attend her former religious organization. Sami’s new group is probably which of these?

a. a sect

b. a church

c. a Denominations

d. a new religious movement

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cults and New Religious Movements

Difficulty Level: Easy

29. Emile Durkheim argued that religion promotes which of these?

a. dysfunction

b. solidarity

c. a sacred canopy

d. false consciousness

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Functions of Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

30. With which of these statements would a structural functionalist agree?

a. Religion provides only positive functions for society.

b. Religious solidarity can exclude groups.

c. Religion is particularly functional for stopping violence in society.

d. Religion facilitates peace by helping different groups reject scapegoating.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Dysfunctions of Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

31. Raymond critiques the connection between religion and politics, saying that some religious beliefs are keeping the current political system in place. Raymond’s statement is most closely aligned with which of these theories?

a. structural-functionalism

b. conflict/critical theory

c. symbolic interactionism

d. exchange theory

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Which of these identifies the phenomenon of large numbers of people NOT having a clear and correct sense of their TRUE interests?

a. collective consciousness

b. class consciousness

c. false consciousness

d. enlightened consciousness

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

33. Karl Marx influenced the conflict theory on religion, claiming that religion performs like a(n) ______, which distorts and hides underlying realities of capitalist society.

a. theodicy

b. market

c. ideology

d. bureaucracy

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

34. Critical theorist Jürgen Habermas calls religion a type of ______, or system of ideas generated by the social system to support its own existence.

a. theodicy

b. rationalization

c. legitimation

d. bureaucracy

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

35, From where did all of the global religions originate?

a. Asia

b. North America

c. South America

d. Europe

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Religion and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

36. Lea belongs to the world’s largest religion. Lea is which of these?

a. Muslim

b. Buddhist

c. Christian

d. Hindu

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Religion and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

37. Which religion has a significant historical and contemporary impact while being one of the smallest of the world’s religions?

a. Hinduism

b. Buddhism

c. Muslim

d. Judaism

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Judaism

Difficulty Level: Medium

38. Which religion, heavily concentrated in India, spans six continents through migration and the spread of its teaching?

a. Hinduism

b. Buddhism

c. Islam

d. Pentecostalism

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Hinduism

Difficulty Level: Medium

39. Which religion has moved from its origins in India but primarily resides on the Asian Continent?

a. Hinduism

b. Buddhism

c. Islam

d. Pentecostalism

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Buddhism

Difficulty Level: Medium

40. Which religion understood itself historically as “one religion among others?”

a. Hinduism

b. Buddhism

c. Islam

d. Pentecostalism

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Islam

Difficulty Level: Medium

41. Which of these are the two fastest-growing religions in the world today?

a. Methodism and Judaism

b. Christianity and Islam

c. Buddhism and Lutheranism

d. Islam and Presbyterianism

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christianity

Difficulty Level: Medium

42. Which of these is a sect-like practice of Mormonism?

a. Mormons have made extensive use of the Internet.

b. Mormons have elected officials in political office around the world.

c. Mormons are asked to tithe one-tenth of their income.

d. Mormons adapt to local, indigenous customs.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Mormonism

Difficulty Level: Medium

43. Vera belongs to a religious group that explains that most members of society are damned. It encourages members to return to basic beliefs and views the world in very black and white ways. Which of these terms applies to Vera’s group?

a. secularization

b. fundamentalism

c. profane

d. church

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Fundamentalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

44. Which of these is a strongly held belief in the basic precepts of a religion and a rejection of the modern secular world?

a. Islam

b. pluralism

c. fundamentalism

d. sectarianism

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Fundamentalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

45. According to the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, which country sends the largest number of Christian immigrants?

a. the U.S.

b. Russia

c. Mexico

d. Germany

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Faith on the Move

Difficulty Level: Medium

46, According to the Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, which country receives the largest number of Christian immigrants?

a. the U.S.

b. Russia

c. Mexico

d. Germany

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Faith on the Move

Difficulty Level: Medium

47. In what part of the world has resistance to creating cultural and religious space for Muslim immigrants been greatest?

a. the U.S.

b. Western Europe

c. China

d. Eastern Europe

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Faith on the Move

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Emile Durkheim believed that organic solidarity types of societies would no longer value religion.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Sociological interest in religion is focused primarily on marginal religious groups.

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Sociologists measure religions to see how likely they are to be accurate.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Define religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What is Religion?

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Religion is a social phenomenon that consists of beliefs about the sacred; practices, or rituals; and the community that shares similar beliefs and practices.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Define religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Religion?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. The three main components of religion are beliefs, rituals, and experiences.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Components of Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. In Ha’s religious group members spend most of their praying and chanting. In other words, Ha’s religion involves the use of many rites of passage.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ritual

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Religious rituals often allow people to experience a liminal period.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Ritual

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. People who live in wealthier nations are more likely to be religious than those who live in poorer nations.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Experience

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. Civil religion is defined as religion that brings a nation together.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Civil Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. In the U.S., the Fourth of July is celebrated with fireworks and lively music. These practices are part of the country’s civil religion.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Civil Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Secularization refers to the decline of the significance of religion at the societal and individual levels.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Secularization

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Anna’s family has becoming increasingly religious over the past three generations and religious experiences are a major part of their recent family history. Anna’s family could be said to be “secularized.”

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Secularization

Difficulty Level: Medium

13. Contemporary religious organizations compete amongst themselves for consumers of religion much like manufacturers compete for customers.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Religion as a Form of Consumption

Difficulty Level: Medium

14. Abby attends a church that weekly has over 2,000 members and is held in a stadium. Abby’s church exemplifies a “megachurch.”

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Religion as a Form of Consumption

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Consumerism could be thought of as a new type of religion.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Religion as a Form of Consumption

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. The members of a sect tend to be drawn from the upper social classes.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sects

Difficulty Level: Medium

17. A religious organization marked by bureaucracy, training, highly codified beliefs, and elaborate rituals is called a church.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Churches

Difficulty Level: Medium

18. Both Denominations and churches have in common that their religious services are formal and reserved, with an emphasis on teaching rather than on an emotional religious experience.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Denominations

Difficulty Level: Medium

19. Some sociologists prefer to use the term new religious movements to encompass sects, cults, and a wide array of other innovative religious groups.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cults and New Religious Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

20. The Church of Scientology is an example of a new religious movement.

Learning Objective: 14.4: Describe the types of religious organizations.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Cults and New Religious Movements

Difficulty Level: Medium

21. Émile Durkheim emphasized that anomie was often the result of religious behavior.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Functions of Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. The “paradox of community” as applied to religion means that the same things that draw us together about religion can also tear us apart.

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Dysfunctions of Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. Structural-functionalists recognize that violence and intolerance are two dysfunctions of religion.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Dysfunctions of Religion

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. To a conflict theorist, religion generates ideas about society to support its own existence.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Conflict/critical theorists argue that religion serves as a distraction from economic and social inequalities.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories

Difficulty Level: Medium

26. Buddhism was the first worldwide religion.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Religion and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium

27. Most Jews today live in the Middle East.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Judaism

Difficulty Level: Medium

28. China has the largest number of Buddhists in the world.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Buddhism

Difficulty Level: Medium

29. Islam was the first religion to understand itself as one religion among others.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Islam

Difficulty Level: Easy

30. The two fastest growing religions in the world today are Islam and Buddhism.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Christianity

Difficulty Level: Easy

31. Traditional Islamic law, or sharia, is a form of fundamentalism that includes modest dress for women, abstention from alcohol, and participation in public prayers.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Fundamentalism

Difficulty Level: Medium

32. Muslims make up the largest migrating group of all world religions.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Faith on the Move

Difficulty Level: Easy

33. The U.S. is the number one country for receiving Buddhists.

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Faith on the Move

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Compare and contrast how Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber viewed the role of religion in society. Which is most compatible with your point of view and why?

Learning Objective: 14.1: Explain how Marx, Weber, and Durkheim viewed the role of religion in society.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis and Application

Answer Location: Early Sociologists and Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. What defines religion? Name the three major components of religion.

Learning Objective: 14.2: Define religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is Religion?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. How does the chapter text define beliefs in the context of religion? What are three areas of belief that religious traditions typically address?

Learning Objective: 14.3: Identify the major components of religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Belief

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Discuss the view that structural-functionalists have on religion. Identify and describe two points they would make about the positive role of religion and two points about its negative role.

Learning Objective: 14.5: Apply structural/functional and conflict/critical theories to religion.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Functions of Religion; Dysfunctions of Religion

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Discuss two aspects describing the process by which religion has undergone globalization. When did religion begin to undergo globalization?

Learning Objective: 14.6: Describe the relationship between globalization and the world’s major religions.

REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Religion and Globalization

Difficulty Level: Medium