There has been a rise in Christian ________ in the United States since the 1960s.
a. membership
b. churches
c. denominations
d. fundamentalism
Question 2Identify which of the following is not a reason for the rise of religious fundamentalism.
a. Fundamentalists put great emphasis on converting other people.
b. Fundamentalist congregations emphasize individualism.
c. Fundamentalists offer the truth; they believe intensely that they are right and other people are wrong.
d. Fundamentalists offer not only a critique of modern society but also an action program based on its set of absolute beliefs.
Question 3The defection of Latino Catholics for evangelical Protestant denominations has been due in part to charges of various forms of ________ in the Catholic Church.
a. worship
b. discrimination
c. ordainment
d. authority
Question 4Reasons for the decline in mainline churches include the fact they have lost vitality and have become more and more ________.
a. bureaucratic
b. cultist
c. churchlike
d. sectarian
Question 5The reason(s) the Catholic Church has been especially vulnerable to losses in attendance include(s) ________.
a. the rigidity of the Catholic hierarchy
b. the current revelations of the pedophilia scandals engulfing a number of Catholic parishes
c. their refusal to accept women in leadership roles.
d. all of the above
Question 6Many churchgoers want ________, but too often they receive only more ambiguity.
a. autonomy
b. democracy
c. authority
d. pluralism
Question 7Mormon, African American Protestant, and conservative evangelical groups' membership has ______ substantially.
a. declined
b. increased
c. stabilized
d. recovered
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