UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS UNIVERSITEITSEKSAMENS. Cd ne, UNISA Tees. EDT303Q October/November 2015 SUBJECT DIDACTICS: RELIGION EDUCATION 7 Duraton 2 Hours 100 Marks EXAMINERS FIRST MRD CHETTY PROF MCLASQUIN DR GJ MASON SECOND PROF DP GOOSEN Closed book examination ‘This examination question paper remains the property of the University of South Africa and may not be removed from the examination venue. This examination question paper consists of 6 pages INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANSWERING THIS EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER: All questions are compulsory {In Section 3 — Multiple Choice ‘You need to answer the 30 multiple choice questions by writing the question number and next to it, the letter of the correct answer, in your examination answer book For example 41 (1) 42 (3) And 80 on Do not use a mark reading sheet Please note that these questions are worth two marks each ITURN OVER}E0T3030 ‘October/November 2015 ‘Section 4 ~ Definition and methodology 1 Your prescnbed matenal presents a working definition of religion. Brefly discuss this definition [10] 2 Bnefly discuss the distinction between the phenomenological and the cntical approaches in the study of religion 10) Section 2 ~ Policy 3 ‘White an essay explaining how the Constitution informs the National Policy on Religion 20) ‘Section 3 - Multiple Choice Questions [0] 4 Answer the following 30 mutiple choice questions by writing the question number and, next to tt, the number of the correct answer, n your examination answer book For example 41) 42 @) (Those are examples, not necessanly the answers! Read the actual questions ) Do not use a mark reading sheet 41 The founder of the Jewish religion is named (1) Dawid (2) Abraham (3) Moses (4) The Jewish religion does not have a specific founder 42 The founder of the Christan religion 1s named (1) Saul of Tarsus (2) Jesus of Nazareth (3) Herodotus of Haicarnassus (4) The Christian religion does not have a specific founder 43 The founder of the Muslim religion 1s named (1) The prophet Muhammad (2) The scientist Isaac Newton (3) The messiah Jesus (4) The Muslim religion does not have a spectic founder 44 The founder of the Hindu religion 1s named (1) Sn Ramaknshna Paramahamsa (2) The ven AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (3) Adi Sankara Bhagavatpadacarya (4) The Hindu religion does not have a specific founder (TURN OVER]45 46 47 48 49 410 an 412 413 E0T2030 October/November 2015 ‘The founder of the Buddhist religion is named (1) The Prophet (2) The Pope (3) The Buddha (4) The Buddhist religion does not have a spectfic founder ‘The founder of Afncan religion 1s named (1) Shaka Zulu (2) Credo Mutwa 3) John Mbit: (4) Afncan religion does not have a specrfic founder The founder of the Mormon religion 1s named (1) Joseph Smith (2) James K Polk 3) Brigham Young (4) The Mormon religion does not have a specific founder The founder of Atheism is named (1) Richard Dawson @) Sam Hams (3) Bertrand Russell (4) Atheism does not have a spectfic founder ‘The founder of the Baha'i religion is named (1) Mulla Nasruddin (2) Ayatolloh Khomeint (3) Baha'u'llah (4) The Baha't religion does not have a speetfic founder ‘The founder of the Wiccan religion in the modem era is named (1) Gerald Gardner (2) Chauncey Gardiner (3) Margaret Gardiner (4) The Wiecan religion does not have @ specific founder ‘The word messiah in Jewish belief is iterally interpreted as, (1) the ‘chosen one’ (2) the ‘anointed one’ (3) the ‘enlightened one’ (4) the ‘saviour ‘The doctrine of incarnation mn Christianity means that God (1) assumes a human body (2) ts revealed in different physical forms (3) dwells spintually in the world (4) _remcarnates into diferent bodies Which one of the following beliefs is NOT charactenstic of islam? Belief in (1) angels @) —allast judgment (8) the divine Chnst (4) one God ITURN OVER}414 ats 416 47 418 419 420 421 EDT303q October November 2015 ‘A person states that in his or her religious group, they beleve that people are born into different bodies again and again according to the way they had lived. This person 1s most likely a Jew @) Hindu (3) Mustim (4) Mormon Which one of the following staternents on the euchanist is correct?” (1) tts administered to those whose death ts imminent (2) Itcelebrates the coming of age of Jewish giris (3) Itenacts Jesus’ last supper with his disciples (4) tis. ritual performed dung the month of Ramadan Dunng the stage of the ife of a Hindu, one raises a family (1) student (2) householder @) gradual wetndrawal (4) total withdrawal Wiccan festwals typically focus on (1) puntfication ntuals through baptism (2) the celebration of polygamous relationships (3) the rhythms of the natural world (4) sacntfices to Satan Circumcision is an important practice in (1) Judaism and Christianity (2) Islam and Buddhism (3) Islam and Judaism (4) all the Abrahamic religions ‘What gave rise to the synagogue since the Diaspora? (1) Jewish people being isolated from their place of worship in Jerusalem (2) The destruction of the Jewish people's Cathedral (3) Jewish people being told to change their religious beliefs and practices (4) The rebuilding of the Jewish people's Temple The largest African Independent Church in South Africa is the = Church (1) Restafanan (2) Ethopran (3) Zionist (4) Shembe Which of the following statements about the historical development of islam 1s INCORRECT? (1) The first four hundred caliphs were frends of the Prophet Muhammad (2) nlater years we see that the caliphate became hereditary and functioned like the office ofakng (3) After the tenth century, the golden age of Musim ciwilzation began to decline and the caliphate began to lose power (4) After World Wer 4, with the demise of the Ottoman Empire, the caliphate ceased to exist [TURN OVER}422 423 424 425 426 427 428 EOT3030 CctoberiNovember 2015 Which of the following statements about the traditional account of the ife of the Buddha is, INCORRECT? (1) His real name was Muhammad ibn Abd Allah, and he 1s traditionally said to have an ‘orphan who directed caravans across the deserts of Arabia (2) Atthe age of eighty, the Buddha contracted a serious case of food poisoning, of which he eventually died (3) For forty years the Buddha travelled widely in northern India, making @ number of converts (4) The Buddha did not discriminate among his lay followers were kings and prostitutes, and even a serial kiler ‘Which of the following religious traditions have a fixed canon? (1) Judaism and islam (2) Tibetan and Zen Budahesm 3) Afncan Indigenous Religions and Chnstanity (4) Protestantism and Chinese Buddhism Which one of the following statements about sacred scriptures 1s correct? () The Christan Bible includes the sacred scnpture of another religion within it (2) Allreligions have sacred scrptures and these are of equal importance (8) Buddhist sacred senptures are holy and mspired The writers wrote under God's influence (4) Muslims believe that the Bible is the most correct of all God's revelations The term “Taimud’ refers to (1) the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (2) commentaries on the Quran (3) the Mishnah and the Gemara (4) the laws of Manu (Christians believe that the Old Testament is the old covenant made with Moses, and the New ‘Testament 1s the new covenant made by (1) Abraham (2) the Apostle Peter (3) the Apostle Paul (Jesus The Catholic Church is governed by bishops The Bishop of Rome, however, has a ‘special position and ts aiso known as the (1) anteChnst (2) patnarch (3) pope (4) archbishop The supreme seat of authonty for Bahaiis is (1) the Local Spintuat Assembly (2) the National Spintual Assembly (3) the International House of Spiritual Unity (4) the Universal House of Justice (TURN OVER]429 430 DT3030 OctoberNovember 2015 In which one of the following religious traditions would you NOT find monastic institutions? ()Istam (2) Buddhism (3) Catholicism (4) Eastern Orthodoxy ‘The leader of a Jewish community 1s today known as (1) apnest (2) animam (3) arabbr (4) a prophet ° UNISA 2015