Buddhism
Judaism
Islam
Christianity
Hinduism
100

In his first sermon, the man known as the Buddha taught Four Noble Truths, which are about:

What is suffering and how to be free from it?

100

In Judaism, what is Yom Kippur?

What is the Day or Atonement or Repentance?

100

The word islam means...

What is to submit?

100

Christian monotheism is distinguished from Jewish and Muslim beliefs about God by...

What is God as Trinity?

100

According to Hinduism, the law of consequences that governs the chain of lives is called...

What is karma?

200

One of the Buddha's Four Sights beyond the princely gate

What is an old person; a sick person; a dead person; a holy man?

200

In Judaism, what is the Talmud?

What is a collection of rabbinical law, opinions, and stories?

200
The call to prayer in Islam

What is Adhan?

200

Andrew Walls describes Christianity and its message as both of these in relation to culture

What is prisoner and liberator?

200

The earliest revealed scriptures of Hinduism are...

What is the Vedas?

300

In Buddhism, the main practice that leads to enlightenment or “awakening” is...

What is meditation?

300

An explanation for the origin or history of the world, an origin story, explanation for the history, present state, and possible futures of the world

What is cosmology?

300

In what century did Muslims first arrive in North America, specifically the United States?

What is the 15th or 16th centuries?

300

In Christian practice, the Lord’s Supper, or Eucharist, primarily signifies...

What is Jesus' death as suffering and sacrifice?

300

This nationalist movement was created in the 1920s, meaning Hindu-ness, named by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, as a resistance to British colonial rule and Islamic Mughal dynasty.

What is the Hindutva Movement?

400

The idea that the state is neutral as it relates to religion, especially in France.

What is laïcité?

400

During what event were Jews expelled from Europe?

What is the Inquisition?

400

The city where Muhammad was born

What is Mecca?

400

One of the earliest formulations of Christian belief, developed in 325 CE in a council

What is the Nicene Creed?

400

The ultimate problem in Hinduism, that is to be solved through release, or moksha.

What is samsara? Wandering through

500

When scholars or students of religion reduce a complex thing to a definable entity

What is essentialism?

500

ONE of the types of Jewish communities found in the United States? 

What is...

  • Conservative

  • Orthodox

  • Reform

  • Reconstructionist

  • Humanistic

  • Jewish Renewal

500

The Sunnis/Shia split resulted from a disagreement over...

What is who should lead Muslims after Muhammed's death?

500

The political OR cultural context in which Christianity initially developed

What is the Roman Empire? 

What is Hellenistic culture?

What is Jewish culture?

500
The idea that religious traditions share a single, metaphysical truth

What is perennialism?