APHUG: Religions

The world's largest universalizing religion is?

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Islam

• Shintoism

The world's four largest religions in terms of total number of adherents include all but which of the following?

• Hinduism

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Buddhism

• Islam

Chinese tradition and African traditional represent which type of religion?

• unaffiliated

• ethnic

• folk

• universalizing

• syncretic

______ is the belief that the existence of God cannot be proven empirically.

• assimilation

• atheism

• amalgamation

• unaffiliation

• agnosticism

The world's largest ethnic religion is...

• Daoism

• Shintoism

• Hinduism

• Confucianism

• Islam

A religion that is spatially widespread and philosophically inclusive of all potential adherents is described as a(n) ______ religion.

• folk

• universalizing

• tribal

• ethnic

• animistic

An ethnic religion is...

• appealing mostly to one group of people in one place

• based on belief in one particular spiritual leader

• based on only one leader

• more peaceful than a universalizing religion

• younger than a universalizing religion

Almost 90 percent of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to...

• Christianity

• Fundamentalist and nondenominational Christian churches

• Roman Catholicism

• Protestantism

• Eastern Orthodoxy

A number of local congregations united in a single and legal administrative body is a...

• denomination

• sect

• branch

• dialect

• family

A ______ is a large and fundamental division within a religion.

• sect

• denomination

• family

• dialect

• branch