Download Chapter 1 Livingston discusses several reasons to study religion

Chapter 1
Livingston discusses several reasons to study religion? Chose one of these reasons and discuss.
- to understand Homo Religiosus
-to overcome our ignorance
-to understand our culture
-to achieve a global perspective
to formulate our own religious belief or philosophy of life.
What is ontology?
A) The study of being and existence
B) The study of social behavior
C) The study of birds
D) The study of human thought processes
(Answer: A)
True or False: Monotheism is the belief in many gods. (Answer: False.)
What does the term Homo Sapiens mean:
A)
B)
C)
D)
Beings possessed with wisdom and rationality?
Being as players or actors
Beings who hope
Beings as makers or creators
(Answer: A)
The act of appeasing or pacifying often through some form of sacrifice to a deity is called:
(Answer: Propitiation).
According to Livingston, the feeling of disloyalty that can arise from studying other
religions should be regarded as a/an
a.). natural and healthy reaction.
b.) distasteful but healthy reaction
c.) awkward but modifiable reaction
d.) haste and rash reaction
(Answer-A)
Livingston gave 9 examples of attempts to define religion (Martineau, Schleiermacher, Otto,
Kant, Dewey, Tillich, Hick, Freud, and Marx). Choose one of the definitions Livingston gave
for Religion and discuss (You do not need to be exact on the quote)
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True or False: According to Livingston, an adequate definition of Religion should include both
distinctiveness and generality. (Answer: True)
Livingston explains that the confusing of the essence, value, or truth of religion with an
explanation or its origin is called:
a)
b)
c)
d)
genetic fallacy
archetypal error
systematic inclusion
sui generis
ANSWER: A genetic fallacy