Download Chapter 14 Review Sheet: Religion Lesson 1a: Religion and Society

Chapter 14 Review Sheet: Religion
Lesson 1a: Religion and Society
1. religion
2. sacred
3. profane
4. The particular things considered sacred _________ from culture to culture.
5. What do sociologists focus on when studying religion?
Lesson 1b: Theoretical Perspectives and Religion
1. __________________ ________________ was the first sociologist to examine religion.
2. Functionalism and Religion
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
3. Conflict theory focuses on how religion works to either inhibit or encourage _________ __________.
4. What was Karl Marx’s view of religion?
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. What was Max Weber’s view of religion?
a.
b.
6. spirit of capitalism
7. protestant ethic
8. Protestant ethic is often associated with ______________ ___________________
9. Peter Berger believes that humans create from their religious traditions a ___________ of symbolic
meanings to lay over the secular world.
Lesson 14-2: Religious Organizations and Religiosity
1. church
2. denomination
3. Membership in a denomination is _______________.
4. sect
5. What are some examples of sects?
6. cult
7. What are some examples of cults?
8. religiosity
9. The 5 dimensions of religiosity
a. belief
b. ritual
c. intellectual dimension
d. experience
e. consequences
14-3: Religion in the United States
1. Separation of Church and State
2. Freedom of Religoius expression
3. secularization
4. What is the largest religious preference in the United States?
5. Which Protestant denomination is the largest?
6. Fundamentalism
7. What two issues disturbed the early fundamentalists?
a.
b.
8. What do Christian fundamentalists believe in?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
9. Why is fundamentalism strong today?
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b.
c.
d.
10. Religious affiliation is related to what three things?
a.
b.
11. Religion and school