Question 1

Like ethnicity and language, religion is associated with social divisions within and between societies and nations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Émile Durkheim, an early scholar of religion, stressed what he termed religious effervescence.Anthropologists too have stressed the collective, social, shared, and enacted nature of religion, the emotions it generates, and the meanings it embodies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Worldwide, Islam is growing at a rate of about 2.9 percent annually, versus 2.3 percent for Christianity.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

To Kottak, the widespread U.S.belief that recreation and religion are separate domains is both ethnocentric and false.Further, it may be taking the "fun" out of religion.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

According to Victor Turner, all rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation.Of these three, the liminal phase-which is the most interesting-is typically characterized by

Accepted Answer

A) intensification of the social hierarchy. 
B) a forming of an implicit ranking system. 
C) the use of secular language. 
D) symbolic reversals of ordinary behavior. 
E) no change in the social norms.

Question 6

Like Catholicism, Pentecostalism is egalitarian, and adherents need no special education to preach or run a church.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In Melanesia, mana is an essential sacred life force that resides in people, animals, plants, and objects.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 12: Religion

Like ethnicity and language, religion is associated with social divisions within and between societies and nations.

Émile Durkheim, an early scholar of religion, stressed what he termed religious effervescence.Anthropologists too have stressed the collective, social, shared, and enacted nature of religion, the emotions it generates, and the meanings it embodies.

Worldwide, Islam is growing at a rate of about 2.9 percent annually, versus 2.3 percent for Christianity.

To Kottak, the widespread U.S.belief that recreation and religion are separate domains is both ethnocentric and false.Further, it may be taking the "fun" out of religion.

According to Victor Turner, all rites of passage have three phases: separation, liminality, and incorporation.Of these three, the liminal phase-which is the most interesting-is typically characterized by

Like Catholicism, Pentecostalism is egalitarian, and adherents need no special education to preach or run a church.

In Melanesia, mana is an essential sacred life force that resides in people, animals, plants, and objects.