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100

This ancient married couple answered God's invitation to begin a covenant that would continue for thousands of years.

Who is Abraham and Sarah, or Abram and Sarai?

100

This is a category of religions that identify multiple gods.

What is polytheism?
100

Religions use these, or tangible things, in order to refer to intangible ideas.

What are symbols?

100

This dimension, of Ninian Smart's 7 dimensions, might include a hand-written copy of the Qur'an, or a copy of a sacred text inherited from one's family.

What is the material, artistic dimension?

100

This absolutist moral theory bases all ethics decisions on duty alone.

What is deontology?

200

This religious teacher wandered with his followers, teaching and healing, until executed by the Roman empire during the first Century CE.

Who is Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ?

200

This word refers to the self of a being who is trapped within samsara.

What is the atman?

200

This American religious leader wrote a letter to explain the Christian moral traditions that led him to join protests.

Who was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

200

This dimension of Christianity is involved when practitioners imagine or speak of God as a three-in-one.

What is the doctrinal or philosophical dimension?

200

This is the moral agent of an ethics question that asks: Should a doctor be allowed to help a person die?

Who are the lawmakers, or the hospital policy writers, or similar?

300

This servant of Sarah was guided and protected by God after she was cast out of her clan. Muslim pilgrims during hajj walk or run in her footsteps.

Who is Hagar or Hajar?

300

Many religions teach that the sacred, god, prohibits certain actions. Such requirements are examples of this moral approach. 

What is deontology?

300

These children are explaining a ritual called this. 

What is puja?

300

One example of the ritual/practical dimension of a religion is taking a journey to a location involved in a sacred story.

What is a pilgrimage?

300

One moral theory emphasizes the virtues and vices that make up this. 

What is a moral character?

400

This very loyal wife of Ram went into exile with him.

Who is Sita?

400

This element of a religion's belief system explains the way the universe is, and why it is that way.

What is cosmology?

400

This word means to experience being seen by a god, when making an offering to the god. 

What is darshan?

400

This approach to studying religion involves bracketing our assumptions and beliefs and setting them aside before studying a religion.

What is phenomenology?

400

This moral theory works by thinking about two different ethics cases together. Talmudic reasoning is one example of this method.

What is casuistry (or narrative ethics)?

500

In the story about the death of Rabbi Judah ("Rebbe"), Rebbe's followers make this act an offense punishable by death.

What is saying that Rebbe has died?

500

The Shema and the Shahadah are examples of this. 

What is a creed, or a summary of belief?

500

This word refers to people's tendency to combine practices and belief from different traditions. 

What is syncretism?

500

This dimension of a religion informs who practitioners might go to for advice when they face a difficult moral issue.

What is the social, institutional, or organizational dimension?

500

In social ethics, this exists when everyone can access what they need in order to survive and to thrive.

What is justice?

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