Exam 12: Religion, Inequality, and Social Activism

The idea that people are attracted to a particular theodicy or a particular religious group because the belief system is compatible with their own social circumstances and needs is called

The black Christian churches

The idea that religion as an institution is a tool by which the affluent keep the poor in their place and justify the current social system as uniquely fair and just is favored by which theoretical perspective in sociology?

Hymns and sermons in lower-class and working-class churches often stress the following theme(s):

The evidence presented in the text essentially adds up to the conclusion that

The churches of the affluent are more likely than those of the lower-classes to have a moral code that affirms four of the following.Which of the following is not a typical moral affirmation of the affluent churches?

Which of the following is typically an emphasis of the religion of the affluent?

An apocalyptic worldview is usually most appealing to

Which of the following religious worldviews is most likely to mobilize people to activism?

People who are socially oppressed and experience a great deal of suffering need some explanation of a deeper justice or meaning that will ultimately prevail.Such explanations are called

Regarding the African-American religious experience, your textbook author concludes that

Your textbook points out that African American ministers were powerful their local community.Which of the following is not a reason given for that power?

Black scholar Eric Lincoln agued that one unorthodox African American religious movement depicted Christianity as the religion of white people with a white God and a white savior.Being a Christian was equated with worshiping white people and was described as the white society's way of duping blacks into subordinate roles.This group was

Some religious movements espouse a belief in the coming of a new divinely-ruled era in this world which is brought about-in part-through supernatural action.These movements are called

To what social class of people is the millenarian outlook most likely to be appealing?

The thesis about the origins of black religion in America set forth by Herskovits, Wilmore, and other scholars implies that

The textbook's discussion of African-American spirituals notes that these songs

Which of the following was not true of the Lost/Found Nation of Islam?

Liberation theology is

The assertion that "religion is the opiate of the people" came from