This Hindu holiday is known as “the Festival of Lights.”
What is Diwali?
100
This German scholar of divinity sparked a religious revolution by nailing his “95 Theses” to the door of a church, including the idea that "nobody needed an intermediary to have a relationship with God."
Who is Martin Luther?
100
This faith was founded by Lao Tzu (pronounced LAU tsuh)
What is Taoism?
100
This temple in Lowell is where we attended the Festival of Lights.
What is the BAPS (Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha) Temple?
100
This game is usually played during Hannukah.
What is Dreidel?
200
This is the name of a sacred text in Hinduism.
What is Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, Ramayan, Mahabharata, or Upanishads?
200
This Christian faith is the Trinitarian descendant of the American Colonial religious tradition from which Unitarians and Universalists also descended.
What is Congregationalism?
200
This man was the founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
200
This Catholic church in Bedford we visited on a day when many grade-schoolers were receiving their First Communion.
What is St. Michael’s Parish Bedford?
200
This is the Islamic holiday in which you fast from sunrise to sunset.
What is Ramadan?
300
This Hindu deity often portrayed with the head and power of an elephant, is also known as “The Destroyer of Obstacles."
Who is Ganesh?
300
This emperor, for whom the present-day city of Istanbul was once named, made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire in 318CE
Who was Constantine?
300
This religion originated in southwest Asia, and it recognizes numerous deities as “aspects of the divine.”
What is Hinduism?
300
This temple in Lowell is where we attended the Festival of Lights.
What iS the BAPS (Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha) Temple?
300
This is major holiday in Judaism (hint: not Hannukah).
What are are Passover and Rosh Hashanah?
400
This Hindu god is commonly referred to as "The Creator."
Who is Brahma?
400
At this event, a festival in honor of Jesus 50 days after the first Easter, his disciples were able to “speak in tongues” to share their teachings of Jesus with all who came, and is considered by many to be the beginning of Christianity.
What is Pentecost?
400
The associations of these two faith communities agreed to merge in 1961, forming the liberal religious practice which we follow at our church on the Bedford Town Common.
What is Unitarianism and Universalism?
400
This community in Framingham which we visited, holds its “Meeting for Worship” in a converted one-room schoolhouse.
What is Framingham Friends Meeting?
400
The kind of food that Jewish people are allowed to eat because it meets their dietary restrictions: for inestance, meats from animals that have been slaughtered humanely.
What is kosher food?
500
These three Hindu deities are at the top of the Hindu pantheon.
Who are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva?
500
This event in 1054CE marked the separation of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
What is the Great Schism?
500
This contemplative religious practice was founded in England by a man named George Fox, who preached that “There is that light of God in each of us.”
What is Quakerism?
500
This evangelical congregation we visited in Jamaica Plain, has an active, spirited service with a drummer behind glass accompanying the musicians and vocalists.