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QUIZ 1.1

Direction: Provide what is asked in each number. Choose your answer from the box.

1. defined as “an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to worship a god or a
group of gods
2. a belief system that says There is no real distinction between god and the universe.
3. It is The belief and worship of many gods.
4. A belief system that says - God cannot be known
5. Disbelief in or denial of the existence of a personal god.
6. The doctrine or belief in one supreme god.

Religion

Monism

Polytheism

Monotheism

Atheism

Agnosticism

Identify the scholar who defined religion as stated in each number.

1.The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence

2. Religion is that pure and reverential disposition or frame of mind which we call piety

3. Religion is . . . a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man

4. Religion is . . . a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man
5. Religion constitutes our varied human response to transcendent reality
6. Religion is ... the establishment through human activity of an allembracing sacred order, that is,
of a sacred cosmos that will be capable of maintaining itself in the ever-present face of chaos
7. A religious belief is any belief in something or other as divine. ‘Divine’ means having the status
of not depending on anything else.
8. Religion is the belief in a Divine mind and will ruling the universe and holding moral relations
with mankind
9. Religion is the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our
being
10. Religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things . . . which unite into
one single moral community
11. Religion is a system of beliefs and practices by means of which a group of people struggle with
the ultimate problem of human life
12. The six characteristics or dimensions of religion are: “the ritual, the mythological, the doctrinal,
 13. Religion pertains to a distinction between an empirical and a superempirical, transcendental
reality: the affairs of the empirical being subordinated in significance to the non empirical the
ethical, the social, and the experiential
14. Religion is that system of activities and beliefs directed toward that which is perceived to be
sacred in value and transforming power

Enumerate 5 Key Elements of Religion

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