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Pea0909berry · **on:** Jul 18, 2018

A Sufi teacher tells a story about a joyous man being swallowed into the sea to illustrate the joy of union with the divine. This is an example of what type of religious narrative?

a. orthodox
b. myth
c. canon
d. allegory

Question 2

William Carey, a nineteenth-century British missionary, objected to the practice of surviving Indian widows dying on their dead husbands' funeral pyres called

a. suttee
b. Holi
c. Dasehra
d. varnas