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The former Soviet Union adopted ___ as it's official religious policy

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atheism

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Religion persists in regions of the former Soviet Union with Azerbaijan seeing the continuation today of ____

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Shiit Islam

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The Yellow River is to Chinese Philosophy as the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are to ____

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Christianity

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Ethnic strife in former Soviet regions reflects the legacy of the Soviet policy of ___

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divide-and-diminish

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Persuasion will not lead people to change the language they speak, but it can induce them to ___

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profess adherence to a new faith

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In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the government in 1991 proclaimed that a condition for a judge to be appointed to the country's Islamic courts would be to wear ___

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a beard

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The belief that inanimate objects contain spirits is ____

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animism

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Zoroastrianism is similar to Islam and Christianity in that it is ___

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monotheistic

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Which of the following is NOT generally a characteristic of an ethnic religion?

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always polytheistic

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The faith that is most widely dispersed over the world is ___

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Christianity

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Islam is predominate in northern ___, while traditional religions are predominate in the south.

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Sudan

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The Hindu religion is one of the oldest of the great religions and may have begun ___ years ago.

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4,000

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Hinduism arose in the ___ River Valley

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Indus

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One of the unique characteristics of Hinduism is that it ___

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emerged without a prophet

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The fundamental doctrine of the Hindu faith is ___

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karma

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Sikhism is a small compromise religion that arose from the confrontation between Hinduism and ___

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Islam

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The Indonesian island of Bali became a refuge for Hindu holy men, nobles and intellectuals during the 16th century because ___

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islam engulfed neighboring Java

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Hinduism has not spread by the expansion diffusion in modern times, but at one time it did spread by relocation diffusion as a result of ___

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the transportation of Indian workers

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Buddhism has its source in ___

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India

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The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, who came to be known as the Buddha was perhaps the first prominent Indian religious leader to ___

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speak out against the Hindu caste system

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Buddhism thrives in all of the areas listed below except ___

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India

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Tibetan Buddhism is of the ___ type

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Lamaism

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Geomancers, those who know the desires of the spirits of ancestors, dragons and tigers occupying the natural world, are associated with ___

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feng-shui

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The teachings of Lao-Tsu form the tenants of ___

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Taoism

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The Confucian Classics were the 13 texts that were the focus of education for 2,000 years in ___

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China

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Under Chinese communist rule, Confucianism has ___

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been banned and suppressed

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The Jews of Central Europe are known as ___

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Ashkenazim

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The concentration of religions in Switzerland is related to ___ boundaries

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canton

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By the year ___, Islam had diffused to the East Indies

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1,200

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The diaspora of the Jews resulted from ___

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the Roman destruction of Jerusalem

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The ideology of Zionism has as its goal ___

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a homeland for the Jewish people

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The largest constituency of Christianity is ___

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Roman Catholicism

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The African country where a major cluster of Eastern Orthodox churches survive is ___

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Ethiopia

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Roman Catholic Christianity was spread to Middle and South America by ___

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Spain

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The youngest major religion is ___

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Islam

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Modern-day Shiah Islam dominates a region centered on ___

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Iran

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The Hajj, one of the "pillars of Islam," is ___

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the pilgrimage to Mecca

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The world's largest dominantly Islamic state is ___

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Indonesia

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Shamanism is a traditional religion, and an intimate part of local culture and society. But not all traditional religions are shamanist. In which of the following regions have both Christianity and Islam failed to convert most of the people practicing a traditional religion?

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Africa

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The rise of secularism and decline of religious membership are found in ___

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Europe

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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem marks the site of Christ's ___

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tomb

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Jerusalem is a sacred place for ___

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all of the above

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Jerusalem is to Christians as ___ is to Hindus

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Varanasi

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Buddhist pilgrimages to Bodh Gaya are focused on ___

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a Bhodi tree under which the Buddha taught

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The pagoda is the style of building most often associated with ___

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The Buddhist faith

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The major religion in southern Louisiana is ___

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French Catholic

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Which of the following U.S regional association is INCORRECT?

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Southwest-Mormon

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Which is NOT a feature of Islamic sacred architecture?

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Frescoes depicting the life of the prophet

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Which is an example of an intrafaith boundary conflict?

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Northern Ireland

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The vote to partition Palestine was taken by ___

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The United Nations

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The revolution that destroyed the old order in Ethiopia created a new state on the African map called ___, dominantly Muslim and culturally distinct from the old empire of which it had been a part.

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Eritrea

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Which of the following Balkan association is INCORRECT?

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Croat-Orthodox

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In the former Yugoslavia, Albanians are the dominate ethnic group in ___

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Kosovo

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Northern Ireland, scene of Catholic-Protestant conflict, was partitioned by ___

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Britain

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Mel Gibson is a member of a movement which rejects ___

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developments in Catholicism resulting from the 2nd Vatican Council

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Rabbi Kahane and his followers are examples of ___

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Jewish extremists

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