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1
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Definition of religion

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Socially organized patterns of belief and practices

2
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True or false

Religion deals with relating to ultimate reasoning and assuming the existence of the supernatural

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true

3
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What is the percentage of people in the US that say “I am a religious person.”

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81%

4
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What is the percentage of people in the US that say “I am a convinced atheist.”

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1%

5
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What is the percentage of people in Mexico that say they are religious compared to the percentage of atheists

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76% religious

2% atheist

6
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What is percentages of religious people in canada to atheists

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72% religious

4% atheist

7
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true or false

religion and morality is automatically linked

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false, rituals/church attendance have little or no influence in terms of reinforcing moral behavior

8
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True or false

The image of god has more influence on moral behavior than ritual

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true, when God is seen as conscious, powerful, morally concerned being, that image functions to sustain the moral order

9
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What are two theories of religion

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Economy theory and church-sect theory

10
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What is religious economy theory

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Religious organizations operate in a market similar to commercial economy, they compete trying to attract clients

11
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What is the key influence of religious economy theory

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degree to which a religious economy is regulated by the state

12
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True or false

Most religious groups would prefer to have a state sponsored monopoly

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true

13
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What is the church sect theory

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involves two religious organizations (churches and sects) which was developed in order to address stratification and secularization tensions

14
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What is the church sect stratification tension

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tension between upper and lower classes in religious organizations

15
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What is the church sect secularization tension

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tension between religious organization and cultural environment

16
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What is the main difference between church and a sect

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churches compromise with social order, but a sect rejects social order

17
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Details about a church

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  1. low tension with environment
  2. image of god is remote
  3. audience oriented
  4. meets the needs of upper and middle class
18
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Details about sect

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  1. high tension with environment
  2. Image of god is close active
  3. participant oriented
  4. meets needs of lower class
19
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What is seculariztion

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move away from religious, supernatural explanations and toward worldly ones.
-secularization leads to a shift in the sources of religion, not to the elimination of religion

20
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What are some results of secularization

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revival and innovation/cult formation (new religious movement)

21
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What is the concept of a religious economy

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The market place of competing faiths within a society.

22
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What is the term for when organizations break away and form a less worldly form of the conventional faith

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revival

23
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what is the term for when new religions can arise in societies

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religious innovation or cult formation

24
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What do all religions have in common

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They involve questions about ultimate meaning like does life have a purpose or why are we here

25
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what is the definition of super natural

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to beings or forces beyond nature who are able to suspend, alter, ignore, and create physical forces.

26
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What is the definition of religion

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socially organized patterns of belief and practices that concern ultimate meaning and assume the existence of the supernatural.