Deck 12: New Religious Movements

Question 1

A new religious movement that arises outside other religious traditions is a __________.

Answer 1

cult

Question 2

A new religious movement that is a splinter or subgroup associated with a larger tradition is a __________.

Answer 2

sect

Question 3

L. Ron Hubbard founded the __________.

Answer 3

Church of Scientology

Question 4

A dramatic end of the present world is called a/an __________.

Question 5

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

Question 6

__________ describes the production of a new religion from the combination or mixture of beliefs from diverse traditions.

Question 7

Caodaism developed in 1926 in __________.

Question 8

__________ is the religious movement combines some of the deities of African religions with Catholic saints.

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

Mary Baker Eddy founded the religious movement known as __________.

Question 12

The label "new religious movement" is __________.

A) more negative than cult or sect
B) more positive than cult or sect
C) more neutral than cult or sect
D) more accurate than cult or sect

Question 13

Reverend Sun Myung Moon founded the __________.

A) Church of Scientology
B) Unification Movement
C) Raelians
D) Baha'i

Question 14

Which apocalyptic religious movement was founded by Charles Taze Russell?

A) Christian Science
B) Unity Church
C) United Church of Religious Science
D) Jehovah's Witnesses

Question 15

Radhasoami is an outgrowth of __________.

A) Daoism
B) Confucianism
C) Hinduism
D) Sikhism

Question 16

Madame Helena Blavatsky established __________.

A) Anthropocentrism
B) Wicca
C) Scientology
D) Theosophical Society

Question 17

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

A) Judaism
B) Christianity
C) Hinduism
D) Islam

Question 18

The Rastafari religious group originated in __________.

A) The United States of America
B) Portugal
C) Jamaica
D) Haiti

Question 19

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

Question 20

Scientology is an example of a client cult.

Question 21

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

Question 22

Sathya Sai Baba claimed to be the reincarnation of a saint as well as an avatar of the divine.

Question 23

Mormons believe that in 1922, under angelic guidance, Joseph Smith found the Book of Mormon in Utah State, inscribed on silver tablets.

Question 24

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.

Question 25

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

Question 26

The Rastafari movement started with Alexander Bedward's prophesy of a coming holocaust in which all white people would be killed.

Question 27

Practitioners of Wicca engage in ceremonial magic practices.

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

All the major religions were once new and resisted by more entrenched institutions.

Question 32

How do new religious movements last? What characteristics allow some religious movements to become recognized world religions while others remain sects or cults?

Question 33

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.