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Study Guide Answers
1. What belief system occurs when numerous distinct ethnic, religious, or cultural groups coexist within one nation?
Pluralism
2. The Jewish observance of the Sabbath takes place on what day of the week?
Saturday
3. According to Islam, ______________ was the last prophet of God, and was chosen to be God's messenger to all mankind.
Muhammad
4. What is the Christian belief that God is composed of three persons?
Trinity
5. What does the Buddhist term Nirvana mean?
A state of mind where all suffering and all emotions that give rise to suffering have ceased.
6. The Roman Catholic faith refers to a place, or state, where souls are punished for a period of time before being allowed to go to heaven. What is the name of that place?
Purgatory
7. Who is the Hindu supreme creator and "ultimate reality"?
Brahman
8. __________ is the belief in the existence in many gods.
Polytheism
9. In Hinduism, _____________ is spiritual energy.
Kundalini
10. What is a Hindu word that refers to the belief that the status of a person's next life, or reincarnation, is determined by the deeds committed in a previous life?
karma
11. What is the difference between a person who is an atheist and an agnostic?
An atheist denies the existence of God, or any other deity, and an agnostic believes we are unable to truly know whether or not God exists.
12. What is the Buddhist term that means "action" and is usually translated to mean "cause and effect"?
karma
13. What is the Islamic word that refers to the act of internally striving for perfection?
Jihad
14. What word defines the concept that God is in all places at all times?
Omnipresence
15. A Hindu term that means, "liberation," or "enlightenment" is _________________.
Moksha
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