Quotable quotes
Caribbean religion
Know your theorists
Gospel Lyrics
About the Afterlife
100
This religious leader is quoted as saying "I believe that the only true religion consists of having a good heart".
Dalai Lama
100
Blending Catholic devotion to the saints and African tradition with devotees of mostly Cuban heritage including the woman pictured here
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Santeria
100
This functionalist believed religion provides social solidarity, meaning and purpose and social control.
Emile Durkheim
100
Dem feel seh true dem go a church
Dere sins don't need forgiving, forgiving
Dem really gone from bad to worse
Wid dem yah careless living, living
Are the lyrics of this song by Shaggy
Church Heathen
100
Rastafarians are often opposed to governmental systems that they see as oppressive to peace and freedom; they use the name of this biblical place as a label for all such perceived systems of oppression.
Babylon
200
“God is present in every one of you, in each one of us.”
Are the words of this first Jesuit hold the office as head of the Catholic Church.
Pope Francis
200
The Caribbean has a significant East Indian population who practice the religion pictures among the worshippers here.
Islam
200
This theorist saw religion as a social drug that nullified the negative effects of the exploitative relationship between the owners and the means of production.
Karl Marx
200
Finish the Lyrics
So long Bye Bye
So long Bye Bye
Goodbye to my pain and sorrow
So long bye bye
200
Christians believe in this place - a very common term in the Bible, used for the sky; for the space beyond our atmosphere; and for God’s dwelling place
Heaven
300
He is with you wherever you are.
Is a quote from this holy book of Islam.
Quran
300
This three word phrase is used by Rastafarians to acknowledge that God exists in everyone
I-and-I
300
This founding father of Sociology argued that the Protestant Reformation paved the way for the development of industrial capitalism.
Max Weber
300
Finish the lyric
You dont haffi dread to be Rasta
You dont haffi dread
This is not a dreadlocks thing
Divine conception of the heart
300
In Roman Catholic doctrine this is a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners
Purgatory
400
the harder the battle, the sweet of Jah victory are the words of this late, great Rastafarian musician
Robert (Bob) Marley
400
Voodoo includes a wide range of rituals, attitudes, ancestor spirits and personified forces derived from african Religion and _________.
Catholicism
400
The view that religion became patriarchal through the misinterpretation of religious beliefs by men is a view most likely held by what group of thinkers
Feminist
400
Think of the good good times
We used to have
Jumping poco a redemption ground
And when you feel the spirit, I was always around
To stop you from falling down
Are the lyrics of a song which references this Jamaican religious tradition
Pocomania
400
Like Hindus Buddhist believe in rebirth and used this term for the idea that actions have consequences, in this life and in future lives
Karma
500
Remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return is the verse recited at which Catholic ritual
Ash Wednesday/ Marking with Ashes
500
a popular symbol of Hinduism in Trinidad. It is usually a bamboo pole carrying multicolored flags, each representing a deity.
Jhandi
500
Like Durkheim this functionalist also believed that religion can provide solace and comfort to members in society when they are befallen by unexpected sudden events such as death.
Talcott Parsons
500
Finish the lyrics from the SJC song
Swell the rising chorus
In her praise who for us, with Truth and Right,
As well as Might, Lit up the path before us.
Let our voices loudly flinging cheer on cheer
In accent ringing
Rend the heavens with our singing.
Hail the white and blue
500
Muslims believe that when people die their soul is taken by this, the term which translates to Angel o Death
Azra'il