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