Honors Sociology, Unit 15: Religion

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Across
  1. 3. Name of the "test" that the Supreme Court uses to decide whether any religious practice in public violates the constitution
  2. 7. Societies in which religious values and religious practice becomes less and less important
  3. 9. Right or Wrong? The United States has the largest number of religious denominations in the world.
  4. 12. Movement within especially Latin American Catholic theology that reads the Christian gospel from the standpoint of empowering the poor = BLANK theology
  5. 13. A term to describe Christians who hope to convert others to their faith
  6. 18. Largest religion in the world
  7. 20. The practice of emphasizing literal interpretation of texts and a "return" to a time of greater religious purity
Down
  1. 1. According to Durkheim, pertaining to the mundane and everyday
  2. 2. Typically an evangelical Christian church that claims 2500 members or more
  3. 4. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant BLANK in the United States.
  4. 5. Claimed that religion was an "opiate" for the masses
  5. 6. Baptism is a kind of religious BLANK
  6. 8. a new, small religious group, often not tolerated or endorsed by government
  7. 10. According to Durkheim, an object, space, or practice that is imbued with the divine, supernatural, or holy
  8. 11. Wrote "The protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
  9. 14. someone who does not believe in any deities or divine/supernatural beings
  10. 15. the pledge of allegiance might be seen as a ritual belonging to a BLANK religion
  11. 16. Saw religion as contributing to social cohesion and giving people a purpose in life
  12. 17. What sociologists called a state-sanctioned religion
  13. 19. This constitutional amendment describes the relationship between the government and religion in the United States