True or false: Confucius’ teachings focused more on education than God.

The founder of Buddhism was whom?

True or false: We know that Confucius was personally a religious man who believed in God and believed that he had a divine calling to teach the truth (as encapsulated in his personal philosophy). However, it is said that Confucious did not encourage his followers to believe in God. His reasoning for this was that he felt that focusing on the next life would lead one to neglect what should be the focus of this life (i.e., the development of a moral character). According to Confucious, if you become ethical, moral, or a superior person in this life, heaven will take care of itself. And this is said to be why he didn’t teach much about God.

According to your text, though there have been ten mortal gurus, when Sikhs use the title “The Guru” (with no name following it) they are usually referring to what or whom?

True or false: Those who are part of the Sikh Khalsa (or military order) typically wear (at the command or dictate of Guru Gobind Singh) what are known as the Five K’s or Five Marks of Sikhism. Those consist of the following items (listed here in in no particular order): (1) special undergarments, (2) a comb, (3) a steel bracelet, (4), a turban, and (5) a small dagger or knife.

In its discussion of the difference between taking a positive versus negative approach to studying world religions, your textbook quotes Gordon B. Hinckley as offering eight things we can do to interface positively with those of other religions. Which of the following were among those eight suggestions? (Select all that apply.)

For Sikhs, heaven is which of the following?

True or false: According to your textbook, the vast majority of practitioners of Shinto actually have (or practice) more than one religion at a time (e.g., Shinto and then something else, such as Buddhism).

What is the Shinto Code of Chivalry that originated with the military in Japan?

Out of Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, one faith holds that (1) the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father only; one holds that (2) it proceeds from the Father and/or the Son; and one holds that (3) it proceeds forth from both the Father and the Son. Which of the three aforementioned traditions takes the former (or first) of these three positions?