The Religious Dimension
Identify three ways that the religious dimension has been expressed in human history.
What is Animism, Polytheism and Monotheism?
Identify the religious traditions with the third largest number of adherents worldwide.
What is Hinduism?
Identify the NRE/S that is a renewal movement within Protestant Christianity that places emphasis on a direct personal relationship with God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
What is Pentecostalism?
Identify the tendency to consider material possessions as more important than spiritual values.
What is materialism?
This is the belief that the evidence which is supposed to provide the existence of God is insufficient at the present time.
What is Agnosticism?
Provide three examples of polytheistic religious traditions or belief systems.
What is Greek mythology/Hinduism/Roman mythology/Celtic/Nordic?
Which of the following is correct?
Statement 1: Hinduism is the dominant religion of Tibet. Statement 2: Islam is the dominant religion of India.
What is both statements are false?
Identify the psychology and science-based, health, wellbeing, human potential and wealth festival that promotes New Age Religions and has a focus on acquiring 'special knowledge' .
What is the Mindbody Spirit Festival?
The “Leave No Trace” Principle of the Burning Man Festival is an example of this influence on the growth of new religious expression and spiritualities.
What is the growth of ecological awareness?
Reason is the only valid path to the truth. This statement is an expression of which of the following?
Polytheism, Agnosticism, Scientific Cohesion, Rational Humanism
What is Rational Humanism?
Provide three reasons for the significance of the religious dimension in human history.
What is meaning and purpose for the individual, social cohesion and social transformation?
Which of the following countries has the largest number of Jewish adherents?
Israel, USA, United Kingdom or France
What is the USA?
Provide three examples of New Age Religions based on ancient religious beliefs.
What is Paganism, Wicca and Druidry?
The notion that the worldviews of traditional religions are outdated and irrelevant to contemporary society (i.e. no intercourse before marriage) is an example of this influence on the growth of new religious expression and spiritualities.
What is the disenchantment with traditional religious practice/guidance?
"This world and this life are all we have, as there i s no proof of life after death" is a common Humanist response to which contemporary issue/idea.
What is the concept of the transcendent?
Provide two examples of how the religious dimension has contributed to social transformation in human history.
What is the rise of capitalism (Protestant), the abolition of slavery (Evangelical Christian), the demise of Aztec civilisation (Christianity), the overthrow of the Shah in Iran (Islam), USA Civil Rights Movement (Baptist Christian)?
In which pair of countries is Buddhism the dominant religion?
* India and Qatar
* Samoa and Sri Lanka
* The Philippines and Fiji
* Thailand and Cambodia
What is Thailand and Cambodia?
Identify three reasons for the rise of new religious expressions and spiritualities.
What is search for personal fulfilment, seeking ethical guidelines and seeking to clarify one's relationship with society?
Provide four influences on the growth of new religious expression and spiritualities.
What is the rise of materialism, scientific progress, the growth of ecological awareness and disenchantment with traditional religious practice/guidance?
Provide two Christian organisations and two Humanist organisations that reflect their respective worldviews of social responsibility.
What is St Vincent de Paul Society/Caritas/Salvation Army/World Vision?
What is Guide Gods/Save the Children Fund/Oxfam/Humanists Australia/Humanist Action Group?
Identify the belief in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe.
What is theism?
Which of the following is not a predominantly Christian country?
Papua New Guinea, Greece, the Philippines, Albania.
What is Albania?
Define spiritualism and provide an example.
What is a system of belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead, especially through mediums?
Who is Lisa Williams/California Psychics?
Explain how scientific progress has influenced the growth of new religious expression and spiritualities. Provide an example to support your argument.
What is the undermining of religious authority through scientific questioning and development, for example, the The Big Bang & Theory of Evolution has challenged the fundamentalist creation theory?
What are the Gospel values of "love your neighbour" and charity?
What is community involvement for the sake of individuals and society alone?