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krzymel

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Robert Bellah (1978) coined the term world-rejecting religion to describe most forms of Christianity, including Protestantism. More generally, world-rejecting religions
 
  A. are shamanistic religions that reject the encroachment of capitalism and modernity.
  B. reject the material world and focus on the body's internal biological balance.
  C. are a recent historical phenomenon.
  D. tend to reject the naturalthe mundane, ordinary, material, secularworld and focus instead on a higher realm of reality.
  E. focus on the effects that heavenly bodies such as the moon, sun, and Mars have on social life.

Question 2

Which of the following kinds of religion involves full-time religious specialists?
 
  A. communal religion
  B. shamanistic religion
  C. Olympian religion
  D. individualistic cult
  E. idiosyncratic belief system



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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