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Question 1

How are ethics and values developed out of religious experience in Otto's view?

a) The non-rational and emotional religious experience supports the concepts of a religion.

b) A person who can experience the power of God can tell others how to live.

c) God gives people the rules of ethics.

Question 2

In Otto's view, the main characteristics of religious experience are

a) a non-rational experience that is only experienced in religion and is difficult

for a person to express.

b) an understanding of the cosmos and the place of humanity in it.

c) a rational acceptance of God's power to create and destroy.

Question 3

William James' analysis of religious experience states that it is "noetic". This term means that religious experience

a) is a deep knowledge or insight.

b) cannot be described.

c) comes from something outside of us.

Question 4

Rudolf Otto and William James agree that religious experience cannot be described or expressed easily in words.

a) True

b) False

Question 5

Durkheim defines the sacred as

a) things that are designated as sacred by a community.

b) something given to us by God.

c) holy things.

Question 6

In Durkheim's thought, the totem functions as a focus of community bonding and power.

a) True

b) False

Question 7

In Marx's thought, alienation is defined as

a) Workers unable to benefit from the full value of their work.

b) Humans becoming alienated from God through sinful actions.

c) God being separated from humanity.

Question 8

According to Marx, religion will no longer be necessary when

a) people begin to have religious experiences that they cannot explain.

b) the people realize the cause of their suffering is economic inequality and they change the situation.

c) the majority of people become atheists.

Question 9

In Freud's thought, illusion is always wrong.

(a) True

b) False

Question 10

What is the positive aspect of the illusion of religion, according to Freud?

Question 11

According to Geertz's thought, religion creates a sense of reality through

a) creative imagination.

b) religious experience that is cultivated by the individual.

c) symbolic systems, motivations, and rituals.