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Identify the different kinds of presentational symbols:
1. An indicator or symptom of something unseen - ANSWER Sign
Identify the different kinds of presentational symbols:
2. Symbolic communication, symbolic use of language or images - ANSWER Analogue
Identify the different kinds of presentational symbols:
3. An act that makes the holy present - ANSWER Sacrament
What are the Diamond Sutra, Lotus Sutra, and Tipitaka - ANSWER Buddhist texts
What are the Brahmanas, Mahabharata, Puranas, Ramayana, Upanishads, and Vedas? -
ANSWER Hindu texts
What is the difference between presentational and representational symbols? a.
Presentational symbols participate or share in that which they symbolize. Representational
symbols are a matter of convention, where the meaning must be learned. b. Presentational
symbols are signs, representational symbols are analogues or metaphors c. Presentational
symbols are religious, representational symbols are non-religious
d. Presentational symbols are images, representational symbols are words - ANSWER A
,A scared story must be historically true in order to be meaningful. - ANSWER False
The bible and other sacred texts, typically begin as oral tradition and do not take written
form until later. - ANSWER True
Torah, the most sacred text for Jews, is the Pentatauch - the first five books of the Bible,
the "Five Books of Moses" - ANSWER True
The entire Hebrew Bible was canonized by Jesus' day. - ANSWER False
All four gospels provide a genealogy of Jesus, tracing his ancestry back generations. - ANSWER
False
Only two of the four gospels give an account of Jesus' conception and birth - ANSWER True
Original manuscripts of the New Testament texts do not exist. - ANSWER True
The Qur'an was revealed and recorded in the 10th century CE - ANSWER False
Hinduism and Buddhism do not have any sacred texts. - ANSWER False
Which kind of creation myth can be found in the Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition?
a. Emergence from a primal substance
b. Creation by divine decree, out of nothing
c. Emergence from a cosmic egg
d. The ordering of chaos
, e. Sexual union of a primal male and female - ANSWER Creation by divine decree, out
of nothing
Distinguish between different kinds of scared story, in terms of the tent of the stories:
1. To explain or validate what is - ANSWER Myth
Distinguish between different kinds of scared story, in terms of the tent of the stories:
2. To inspire us with tales or hero figures and larger than life events - ANSWER Sacred History
Distinguish between different kinds of scared story, in terms of the tent of the stories:
3. To teach us a moral lesson or spiritual truth - ANSWER Parable
The Pali Canon is the collection of texts used by:
a. Zen Buddhists
b. Mahayana Buddhists
c. Theravada Buddhists
d. Nichiren Buddhists - ANSWER Theravada Buddhists
Why did the ancient Jews give up the practice of ritual sacrifice of animals? - ANSWER The
temple was destroyed so they no longer had a place to perform the sacrifice.
In marriage, ordination, and inititation rituals, vows are important as the
___________________ element that accomplishes a change in status. - ANSWER performative
Muslims commemorate Abrahams scarifice of his son _____ at the annual festival of Eid-al-
Adha at conclusion of the Hajj. - ANSWER Ishmael
Four stages of a calendar ritual - ANSWER Mortification, purgation, invigoration, jubilation
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