MATCHING -Secular Thinking

question 19

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
-Secular thinking

• A)The linking of strongly held religious convictions with beliefs about a people's social and political destiny
• B)Worldly thinking, particularly as seen in the rise of science, technology, and rational thought in general
• C)Fragmentary religious groupings to which individuals are loosely affiliated but that lack any permanent structure
• D)The argument that religions can be fruitfully understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers
• E)A religious sect that has lost its revivalist dynamism and has become an institutionalized body, commanding the adherence of significant numbers of people
• F)An activist Catholic religious movement that combines Catholic beliefs with a passion for social justice for the poor

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Definitions:

Representativeness

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Prevalence

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