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4) View Lecture 1 via TITANium(10 min) & Answer Questions below

1. What is the primary purpose of this course?

2. List the names of the five countries with the largest populations (in population order).

3. What are the primary differences between the statistics of religious believers worldwide and the statistics of religious believers in the United States?

4. What's the difference between a "question of meaning" and a "question of truth"?

5. List three possible benefits to studying religions.

5) View Video via TITANium& Answer Questions below

Video: Great Religions of the World (10 minutes)

6. It is thought that the first basic religious systems developed in response to the human search for meaning, social order, and environmental control. Explain.

7. With what did many early religions associated special powers?

8. According to the video, why did religious systems become more complex?

9. What's the difference between an "ethnic" and a "universal" religion?

10. Major religious systems of the present can be divided into what two geographically distinct traditions?

6) Revealing World Religions E-book, "Exploring Religions," sections 1-3

Section 1: What is Religion?

11. What does it mean to say that a definition of religion is polythetic?

12. How do scholars use the term "myth"?

13. What is the importance of "ritual"?

14. What is a religious specialist?

 

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Section 2: Types of Religion

15. List the two major religions from South Asia.

16. List the two major religions from East Asia.

17. List the four largest religions that are usually classified as "ethnic."

18. List the three religions that are usually classified as "universal."

19. List the three major religions from the Middle East.

20. What does it mean to say that "God is immanent"?

21. What does it mean to say that "God is transcendent"?

22. What is "pantheism"?

23. What is "panentheism"?

24. What is "polytheism"?

25. What is "monotheism"?

26. What is "monism"?

27. What does it mean to say that "the divine is ineffable"?

28. What is "atheism"?

29. What is "agnosticism"?

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Section 3: Studying Religion

30. What is the perspective of "functionalism" on religion?

31. What is the "confessional" perspective on religion?

32. List any three academic fields that study religion.

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