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2. The current research of polls and studies show that religious experience is _____. -
ANSWER d. Very diverse and widespread
3. According to the thought of Barbara Hagerty, if there is something "out there" (outside
the brain) that religious experience actually perceives, then the brain is like a -
ANSWER b. Radio
4. _____ theory posits that the mind is a complex system that exists on a different
level of reality than the brain which it depends on. - ANSWER b. Emergence
5. The feminist term for social systems of the male authority, control, and domination
over women is ____ - ANSWER a. Patriarchy
6. The studies and comments of ________on temporal lobe epilepsy led the media to
suggest that there was a "god gene," that was responsible for the development of a
special part of the brain that produces religious experience. - ANSWER d. V.S.
Ramachandran
7. Those who have religious experiences say that these experiences seem more real than
what they perceive in ordinary reality. This means that to those who have them,
religious experiences are ____. - ANSWER d. Self-validating in that they need no other
proof
, 8. Recent brains scans of Danish Lutherans (who practice prayer to a personal, loving
God) showed that the "temporo-parietal junction" is activated when the Lutherans are
praying. The conclusion of this study is that the brain is using ____ - ANSWER c. The
same brain structures that humans use for give-and-take communication
9. By looking at the brain scans of Danish Lutherans who practice prayer to a personal,
loving God, scientists cannot tell whether they think they are praying to God or
making wishes to Santa Claus. - ANSWER b. False
10. Neuroscience calls the changes in the structures and processes of the brain
even in teenagers and adults the ____ of the brain. - ANSWER c. Plasticity
11. In general, the practice of mysticism involves the belief that mystics ____. - ANSWER c.
Have a direct, inner experience of supernatural realities not known to ordinary sense
perception
12. Huston Smith and Russell McCutcheon, criticize Diana Eck's "pluralism project" as a
way to prevent religious violence because it ____. - ANSWER b. Excludes from the
discussion about peace the very religions that are prone to violence
13. Among other researchers, Robert Wuthnow found that one in ___ Americans
have an exclusivist view of religion. - ANSWER c. Three
14. The Sikh movement of Bhindranwale resulted in the government of India's attack and
occupation of the Sikh's most holy shrine of the ____ in Amritsar. - ANSWER b. Golden
Temple
15. The evidence that Dawkins and Harris use to declare that all religions are inherently
violent consists of ___. - ANSWER d. References to incidents of religious violence in
history
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