Exam 14: New Religious Movements

According to the text, _________ is the power to control events through supernatural or mysterious means.

New Age religions often combined many elements into a single worldview.

Which of these best describes the selection "Science and Health, Recapitulation" in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures?

Describe the founding of Mormonism and its founder, Joseph Smith.

What does the following Key Term mean: -Baha'u'llah

Which of these is not stressed by Baha'i?

What sacred text recounts the history of the ancient lost tribes of Israel who migrated to America, and of Christ, who, after his resurrection, came to America later to restore true Christianity?

The Baha'i Faith dates to the sixteenth century.

The Watchtower Society is also known as

Joseph Smith declared that everything in the world that we think is material is actually spiritual.

The Shakers designed their faith around communal life.

Jehovah's Witnesses were founded in 1881.

The beliefs and practices of some new religions center on occult or psychic phenomena.

What does the following Key Term mean: -Book of Mormon

According to the reading, many new religious movements that we see now began in the ________ century.

The "Second Great Awakening" in America launched which of these into the prominent position they attained during the rest of the century?

Wicca has four sacred texts, which help practitioners follow a strict orthodoxy.

According to the Harris Poll "What People Do and Do Not Believe," how many Americans polled believe in reincarnation-that they were once another person?

For Christian Scientists, the Bible and Science and Health are scripture.

As a form of modern witchcraft, Wicca is a ________ religion that emphasizes sacred powers and divinities inherent in the natural world and in every person.