SYG2000 Unit 3: Chapter 12 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. A religious sect that has lost its revivalist dynamism and become an institutionalized body, commanding the adherence of significant numbers of people.
  2. 3. Describing something that inspires attitudes of awe or reverence among believers in a given set of religious ideas.
  3. 5. The linking of strongly held religious convictions with beliefs about a people's social and political destiny.
  4. 9. A theoretical framework within the sociology of religion, which argues that religions can be fruitfully understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers.
  5. 11. A set of beliefs adhered to by the members of a community, incorporating symbols regarded with a sense of awe or wonder together with ritual practices. Religions do not universally involve a belief in supernatural entities.
  6. 12. A large body of people belonging to an established religious organization. The term is also used to refer to the place in which religious ceremonies are carried out.
  7. 15. Level of intellectual ability, particularly as measured by IQ (intelligence quotient) tests.
  8. 17. A process of decline in the influence of religion. Although modern societies have become increasingly secularized, tracing the extent of secularization is a complex matter. Secularization can refer to levels of involvement with religious organizations (such as rates of church attendance), the social and material influence wielded by religious organizations, and the degree to which people hold religious beliefs.
Down
  1. 1. Traits of behavior or attitudes that are learned at school but not included within the formal curriculum— for example, gender differences.
  2. 4. That which belongs to the mundane, everyday world.
  3. 6. An activist Catholic religious movement that combines Catholic beliefs with a passion for social justice for the poor.
  4. 7. A belief in one or more supernatural deities.
  5. 8. Dividing students into groups according to ability.
  6. 10. Worldly thinking, particularly as seen in the rise of science, technology, and rational thought in general.
  7. 13. The sense that our own abilities as human beings are taken over by other entities. The term was originally used by Marx to refer to the projection of human powers onto gods. Subsequently he used the term to refer to the loss of workers' control over the nature and products of their labor.
  8. 14. A religious movement that breaks away from orthodoxy.
  9. 15. A score attained on tests of symbolic or reasoning abilities.
  10. 16. A fragmentary religious grouping to which individuals are loosely affiliated, but which lacks any permanent structure.