Deck 13: Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Question 1

__________ is the result of worldwide interconnection and urbanization.

Answer 1

Globalization

Question 2

The largest global religion is __________.

Answer 2

Christianity

Question 3

Complex technologies, globalization, urbanization, bureaucratization, and rationality have produced the values collectively known as __________.

Answer 3

modernism

Question 4

The willingness of people of all religions to meet, explore their differences, and appreciate and find enrichment in each other's ways to the divine is known as __________.

Question 5

The religious perspective that one's own faith is the only true way is called __________.

Question 6

__________ conferences are an interfaith initiative that bring people of different religions together to discuss their agreements and disagreements.

Question 7

Barack Obama gave a landmark speech in Cairo to address the political tensions between the west and __________.

Question 8

The goal of religious pluralism is __________.

A) uniformity and agreement among all religions
B) governmental management of religious groups through majority votes
C) making many religions the same under one heading or label
D) collaboration among religions for the common good

Question 9

The ethical principle of the Golden Rule is found in

A) Confucianism and Daoism
B) Christianity
C) Christianity and Judaism
D) All religions

Question 10

In Northern Ireland, interfaith efforts have attempted to directly address conflict between __________.

A) Muslims and Christians
B) Muslims and Jews
C) Protestants and Catholics
D) Christians and Jews

Question 11

The most important value of capitalist economics is __________.

A) charity
B) profit
C) customer service
D) expansion

Question 12

The new "Arab Spring" governments will __________.

A) liberate Muslims worldwide
B) enforce oppressive religious laws on people
C) make alliances with western nations
D) develop in ways yet to be determined

Question 13

The United States has the largest percentage of church-going people in the industrialized world.

Question 14

New Age religion dominates the world today.

Question 15

Inclusivism describes the approach whereby one's own religious system is seen as spacious enough to encompass all others.

Question 16

Universalism refers to the religious study of the universe.

Question 17

Secular issues such as HIV/AIDS, poverty, climate change, and global recession are typically not areas of concern for religious communities.

Question 18

According to the Roman Catholic Church, contraception may be subject to religious guidelines even within marriage.

Question 19

All religions teach that one should not lie, steal, or hurt others.

Question 20

What is the future of religion? There has been a global increase in religiosity, even while the new century has begun with materialism, greed, and violence. What does this suggest about humanity and religion? What is necessary for people to amicably co-habit the world?

Question 21

Bioethics is one of the driving concerns of religion today. As new technologies allow human beings to influence directly biological processes, we experience increasing power to interfere with natural life functions. How should religious communities bring their values to help inform ethical applications of these technologies? And, should discoveries we make through these technologies be used to reframe or reshape religious values? Use a specific example in answering this question.