Aboriginal Spirituality
Which of the following best characterises the importance of totemism in Aboriginal spirituality?
A. It provides links to ancestral beings.
B. It defines the role of Elders in the wider community.
C. It determines the relationship between rituals and ethics.
D. It empowers communities to pursue activist roles in the seeking of reconciliation.
What is
A. It provides links to ancestral beings.
Which statement is true of Australia’s religious landscape since 1945?
A. Interfaith activity did not exist organisationally until the 1970s.
B. Organised religions have become more competitive and less cooperative.
C. Religions have become less concerned with the humanitarian aspects of immigration.
D. The ethnic diversity of Christian denominations has gradually declined since the 1960s.
What is
A. Interfaith activity did not exist organisationally until the 1970s.
Which of the following is an example of monotheism?
A. Atheism
B. Pentecostalism
C. Rationalism
D. Secularism
What is
B. Pentecostalism
Which of the following is addressed by the principle of social responsibility?
A. Personal pleasure
B. Personal self-assertion
C. Issues of theology
D. Issues of inequality
What is
D. Issues of inequality
Which of the following is likely to be a reaction against the rise of materialism?
A. A growth in intolerance towards freedom of religion
B. A decrease in government spending on religious schools
C. An increase in interest in exploring new religious spiritualities
D. A decline in concern by religious traditions towards environmental issues
What is
C. An increase in interest in exploring new religious spiritualities
What does Acknowleding Country recognise?
A. The worship of traditions
B. The importance of meeting places
C. The ongoing role of custodianship
D. The significance of ceremonial life
What is
C. The ongoing role of custodianship
Which of the following is an example of denominational switching?
A. Changing from Judaism to Islam
B. Changing from Buddhism to Hinduism
C. Changing from Catholicism to Buddhism
D. Changing from Anglicanism to Catholicism
What is
D. Changing from Anglicanism to Catholicism
Sam is an atheist and is engaged to Kim who is a theist.
On which of the following are they most likely to have different views?
A. The location of the wedding reception
B. The inclusion of prayers in the wedding ceremony
C. The type of food to be served at the wedding reception
D. Acknowledging the traditional landowners at the beginning of the wedding ceremony
What is
B. The inclusion of prayers in the wedding ceremony
Religious belief can provide not only a sense of identity and community for people but also an experience of stability. Within which of the following is this view most likely to be expressed?
A. Monotheism
B. Social cohesion
C. Rational humanism
D. Social transformation
What is
B. Social cohesion
Which of the following has contributed most to the growth of new religious expressions and spiritualities?
A. The desire for self-direction
B. Opposition to genetic engineering
C. Disenchantment with the environmentalist movement
D. Increased government funding to explore religious alternatives
What is
A. The desire for self-direction
Which of the following statements is true about Aboriginal dispossession?
A. It ended the policy of assimilation.
B. It reduced the importance of Christian missions.
C. It limited access to land in rural areas by mining companies.
D. It disrupted the inextricable connection between land and kinship.
What is
D. It disrupted the inextricable connection between land and kinship.
Which of the following contributed most to the increase in the numbers of adherents to religious traditions other than Christianity in Australia?
A. Growing sectarianism
B. Attraction to New Age religions
C. Initiatives promoting religious tolerance
D. The abolition of the White Australia Policy
What is
D. The abolition of the White Australia Policy
On which of the following are an animist and an atheist most likely to have similar views?
A. A respect for the environment
B. The idea that rocks have souls
C. The existence of a transcendent dimension in life
D. The concept that ancestors have spirits who have an influence on the living
What is
A. A respect for the environment
Students from a school raised funds to support the Salvation Army’s work with the homeless. Many homeless people now benefit from the students’ generosity.
The benefit to the homeless is an example of which of the following?
A. Social cohesion
B. Social rationalism
C. Social engineering
D. Social transformation
What is
D. Social transformation
The rise of new religious expressions and spiritualities is best explained by
A. disenchantment with multiculturalism.
B. increasing confidence in government institutions.
C. the search for guidance outside traditional religious practice.
D. the desire to work with traditional religious practices in caring for the earth.
What is
C. the search for guidance outside traditional religious practice.
In Aboriginal spirituality, responsibility for one’s country is primarily established through which of the following?
A. The performance of corroboree at sacred sites
B. The system of kinship among Aboriginal peoples
C. The enactment of stories through symbols and paintings
D. The maintenance of the site where an Aboriginal person was born
What is
B. The system of kinship among Aboriginal peoples
Communication between which of the following is an example of interfaith dialogue?
A. Anglican and Lutheran
B. Pentecostal and Baptist
C. Buddhist and Salvation Army
D. Russian Orthodox and Presbyterian
What is
C. Buddhist and Salvation Army
Which of the following views is a theist most likely to hold?
A. The source of human morality is external to the universe.
B. Humans are free from having to follow any absolute moral teachings.
C. Ethical standards must be based on widely accepted human behaviours.
D. Scientific methodology is a process that will eventually lead to the discovery of all truth.
What is
A. The source of human morality is external to the universe.
Rational humanism is a non-religious worldview that strongly emphasises which of the following?
A. The value of the human soul
B. The fixed nature of humankind
C. The use of human logic to resolve challenges
D. The power of humanity to make the world free from violence
What is
C. The use of human logic to resolve challenges
Which of the following lists the current global distribution of the five major world religious traditions in size from largest to smallest?
A. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism
B. Judaism Islam, Christianity, Hinduism
C. Buddhism, Judaism Christianity, Islam
D. Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism Christianity
What is
A. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism
Which of the following best describes the main purpose of ceremonial practices in Aboriginal spiritualities?
A. To complete initiation rites
B. To redefine Dreaming events and obligations to the land
C. To maintain a connection between the physical and spiritual worlds
D. To provide support for the roles and responsibilities of elders
What is
C. To maintain a connection between the physical and spiritual worlds
Which of the following is an example of secularism?
A. A search for interfaith cooperation
B. A separation of religion from government
C. A commitment to a specific religious identity
D. An integration of communities that share a common belief system
What is
B. A separation of religion from government
Sal believes that natural objects, natural phenomena and the universe itself possess souls. Elle believes that there is not enough evidence to prove that a god exists.
Which of the following describes Sal and Elle?
A. Sal is an animist and Elle is an atheist.
B. Sal is an agnostic and Elle is an animist.
C. Sal is an animist and Elle is an agnostic.
D. Sal is a humanist and Elle is an agnostic.
What is
C. Sal is an animist and Elle is an agnostic.
How would a humanist describe the importance of social responsibility?
A. It is a life priority that should be shared by religious and non-religious groups.
B. It is a significant teaching of major religious traditions.
C. It assists community groups to achieve ecumenism.
D. It helps individuals to achieve an afterlife.
What is
A. It is a life priority that should be shared by religious and non-religious groups.
Chris lives in a country where NONE of the five major religious traditions is practised by the majority of the population. Where does Chris live?
A. Brazil
B. China
C. Indonesia
D. Pakistan
What is
B. China