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What is the Guru Granth Sahib?
What is the Jain worldview?
What are Jain monk’s practices?
What is Zoroastrianism’s Origins?
What is Guru Nanak?
What are the items worn by Sikh Khalsa?
What is the Adi Granth?
What is theology?
What is a Shaman?
What is Sacred time?
What is similar to Jainism and Sikhism?
What is the Sikh gurus?
What are the spiritual forces of Zoroastrianism?
What does religious mean in indigenous religions?
What does the term “indigenous” mean?
What is the creation religion’s view of time?
What is “moksha”?
What is a famous Zoroastrian?
What is Globalization?
What is a “Myth”?
What are Hinduism’s origins?
What is Raja yoga?
What is a Brahmin?
What is dharma?
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
What are Buddhism’s origins?
What is the Buddha’s story?
What are the four noble truths of the Buddha?
What does the term “religion” mean?
What is Animism?
What is the motto of Zoroastrianism?
How did Christmas start?
What is the vision quest of Native Americans?
Where do the majority of Zoroastrians live today?
What are the holy texts for the religions we have studied?
Essay Questions
Note: Answers should be 1 – 2 paragraphs, cite proper examples, and use complete sentences and proper grammar.
In a short summary, explain the life of Mohandas Gandhi and why he is so important to India and Hinduism.
What is the caste system? What are some of the pros and cons of it?
Compare and contrast the concept of God in two faith traditions discussed in class.
Give three examples of religious rituals, each from a different religious tradition, and explain its significance.
What answers does religion seek to answer for human beings?
What happened to the Indigenous religions of America? How have they managed to hold on to their religious traditions, and what challenges have they faced?
In a world in which hate towards religions exists (such as antisemitism and Islamophobia), what practical steps can an individual take to build bridges of understanding and respect with others about the diversity of religion?
What protects our freedom of religion in the United States of America? What are examples of protection for freedom of religion and violations of freedom of religion?
Explain the concept of Ahimsa and the accompanying renunciation of the world according to the Jain tradition.
In what manner did Sikhism try to forge a peaceful balance between the tension of Islam and Hinduism in India?
Discuss the origins of Buddhism and its connection to Hinduism.
How has Buddhism impacted the world?
What questions does religion seek to answer?
Why is the study of religion important? How should one approach the study of religion?
