Exam 12: New Religious Movements

The label "new religious movement" is __________.

Deep ecology movements celebrate the attitude that human beings should be considered the crown of creation and the measure of all things.

Mary Baker Eddy founded the religious movement known as __________.

In general, churches take responsibility for the larger community and respond to its needs whereas sects take responsibility for themselves and their members.

The Baha'i faith strictly opposes bringing faith into the political sphere.

__________ describes new religious movements that take a broader view and try to encompass all religions.

Baha'i is a new religion that seeks to unite all humanity in the belief that there is only one God, the foundation of all religions.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is less formally known as the __________.

Caodaism developed in 1926 in __________.

The religious movement that seeks to reinvent pre-Christian spiritual ways that were once practiced in Europe is called __________.

Which apocalyptic religious movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell?

Practitioners of Wicca engage in ceremonial magic practices.

Modern religious violence is predominantly associated with cult leaders such as David Koresh or Shoko Asahara

Scientology is an example of a client cult.

The faith message of Baha'i was first proclaimed in a state whose majority religion was __________.

Why do new religions emerge? What needs do they seem to fill? Give examples of new religious movements that you evaluate as having respectively positive, neutral, and negative social and personal outcomes. Justify your responses.

L. Ron Hubbard founded the __________.

The Rastafari religious group originated in __________.

Goddess spirituality describes religious models that celebrate the highest deity as a female.

In the period since World War II, relatively few new religious movements have sprung up worldwide.