I. S. Ogorodnik I. V. Ryzhenko religion studies: Technique Guidelines for Practice Activities

Importance of the subject consists in treating religion as a part of complex development of every person, formation of his spiritual culture, choice of values in every-day life. As interaction result of cultural-historical, ethnic-natiomal levels of religious phenomenon analysis, all peculiarities of religion as a socio-historic phenomenon are shown. Religion refers to emotional world-view; it is based on different aspects of human activity, as students of medicine should be aware of all kinds of religious phenomenon display in there professional activity

1. 
   distinguish difeerent bases of religion development process;
   
2. 
   interpret main elements of religion system;
   
3. 
   differentiate particular festures of religious world view;
   
4. 
   define the place and role of religion and religious culture in the spiritual culture of the society.
   

1. 
   Religion as a socio-historic phenomenon. Social, historical, gnoseological and psychological bases of religion development process.
   
2. 
   Peculiarities and structure of religious world view.
   
3. 
   Structure of the religious system and its elements. Notions “religious faith” and “religious feeling”, functions of religion.
   
4. 
   The place of religion in the development of the spirital culture of the society. Religious culture. Freedom of consciousness and personality in religion. Religion and national culture of Ukraine.
   

1. 
   forming of religious conscience
   
2. 
   religion development
   
3. 
   reproduction of religion
   
4. 
   essence of religion
   
5. 
   history of religion
   

1. 
   belief in the supernatural
   
2. 
   belief in miraculous healing
   
3. 
   belief in magic actions
   
4. 
   cult rites
   
5. 
   belief in paradise existence.
   

1. 
   psychological
   
2. 
   scientific
   
3. 
   moral
   
4. 
   logical
   
5. 
   cultural
   

1. 
   Divergence of theological and scientific approaches to the problem of appearance of religion. Legends and myths as a source of primitive beliefs.
   
2. 
   Primitive or early forms of beliefs: totemism, magic, animism, veneration of the dead, fetishism. Manifestation of the elements of early beliefs in modern religion and culture.
   
3. 
   Influence of socio-historic activity (hunting, gathering, agriculture and cattle breeding) on evolution of early beliefs. Polytheism and monotheism.
   
4. 
   Appearance of national, state and world religions as a consequence of cultural-civilisation development. Christianisation of Kievan Rus.
   

1. 
   Belief in reincarnation;
   
2. 
   Belief that every person has a soul;
   
3. 
   Idea that every tribe or family comes from the common ancestor: animal or plant;
   
4. 
   Definite things have supernatural features, they either help or hinder in every-day life;
   
5. 
   Belief in work of incantations;
   

1. 
   Belief that every person or animal has a soul
   
2. 
   Belief in soul reincarnation;
   
3. 
   Idea that every tribe or family comes from the common ancestor: animal or plant;
   
4. 
   Definite things have supernatural features, they either help or hinder in every-day life;
   
5. 
   Belief in work of incantations;
   

1. 
   Definite things have supernatural features, they either help or hinder in every-day life;
   
2. 
   Belief in work of incantations;
   
3. 
   Belief that every person or animal has a soul
   
4. 
   Idea that every tribe or family comes from the common ancestor: animal or plant;
   
5. 
   Belief in soul reincarnation;
   

1. 
   Belief in possibility to influence things and people by means of special actions;
   
2. 
   Belief that every person or animal has a soul;
   
3. 
   Idea that every tribe or family comes from the common ancestor: animal or plant;
   
4. 
   Existence of healing, military and craft activities
   
5. 
   Belief in work of incantations;
   

1. 
   to define peculiarities and distinctive features of the Buddhism dogma, world view and cult;
   
2. 
   analyse different currents in the Buddhism;
   
3. 
   differ Zen-Buddhism world view peculiarities;
   
4. 
   synthesize local values of the Buddhism with the system of spiritual values.
   

1. 
   Buddhism appearance. Philosophic sources of the Buddhism and its religious literature.
   
2. 
   Buddhism dogma and cult. Buddhism world view and distinctive features. The doctrine about rescue.
   
3. 
   Buddhism social doctrine. Buddhism morality.
   
4. 
   Basic currents in Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana (Tibetan Buddhism), Vajrayana.
   
5. 
   Zen-Buddhism in the system of Buddhism world-view.
   

1. 
   - India
   
2. 
   - China
   
3. 
   - Mongolia
   
4. 
   - Japan
   
5. 
   - Ceylon
   

1. 
   – sum of deeds and thoughts of all previous reincarnations
   
2. 
   – person’s world view
   
3. 
   – people’s moral deeds
   
4. 
   – feeling of love towards people, respect for parents, care of children.
   
5. 
   - sum of person’s deeds in one form of reincarnation
   

1. 
   - nirvana
   
2. 
   - mahayana
   
3. 
   - samsara
   
4. 
   - karma
   
5. 
   - dharma
   

1. 
   – Vajrayana
   
2. 
   - Krishnaism
   
3. 
   - Jainism
   
4. 
   - Hinduism
   
5. 
   - Sikhism
   

6. 
   In 520, the Indian monk Бодхидхарма created “isoteric” school of Buddhism, which was laid as a basis of one of Buddhism schools. Define this kind of Buddhism.
   

1. 
   - Zen
   
2. 
   – Tibetan Buddhism
   
3. 
   - Hinayana
   
4. 
   - Mahayana
   
5. 
   - Sikhism
   

1. 
   – Zen-Buddhism
   
2. 
   – Tibetan Buddhism
   
3. 
   - Mahayana
   
4. 
   - Theravada
   
5. 
   - Sikhism
   

1. 
   interpret reasons and conditions of Christianity appearance.
   
2. 
   interpret historic periodisation of the early Christianity. Peculiarities of the church and theological activity in different periods of the early Christianity.
   
3. 
   analyse split of Christianity into Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
   
4. 
   analyse peculiarities of creeds, sacraments, cult activity in Orthodox churches.
   
5. 
   interpret the stages of: Orthodoxy development in Kievan Rus in the medieval period, split of Orthodoxy and the state of Orthodoxy in Ukraine in present days.
   

1. 
   Formation of Christianity. Sources and ideological bases of Christianity.
   
2. 
   The early Christianity. Апологетичний period of Christianity. Christian mystics. Medieval scholactics.
   
3. 
   Orthodoxy: tenets and cult. The history of Russian Orthodox Church: its split and Patriarch Nikon’s reforms.
   
4. 
   Ideas of the Orthodox religious philosophy. Reflection of the religious ideas in the Orthodox works of art.
   
5. 
   Orthodoxy in Ukraine: history and modern state.
   

1. 
   At first, Christianity was formed as a sect. Within which religion did this process take place?
   

1. 
   Buddhism
   
2. 
   Hinduism
   
3. 
   Islam
   
4. 
   Zoroastrianism
   
5. 
   Paganism
   

2. 
   In charismatic period, development of the early Christian tenets was taking place. Vasilid, Saturnal, Karpokratus and… were working at it.
   

1. 
   Valentine
   
2. 
   Plato
   
3. 
   Aristotle
   
4. 
   Plotin
   
5. 
   Tertullian
   

3. 
   In charismatic period, development of the early Christian tenets was taking place. Who in апологетичний period of the early Christianity developed the dogma of the Holy Trinity?
   

1. 
   Origen;
   
2. 
   Kliment of Alexandria;
   
3. 
   Valentine;
   
4. 
   Saturnal;
   
5. 
   Iustine;
   

4. 
   One of the Christian dogmas is dogma of Trinity. Who was the first person who introduced this dogma?
   

1. 
   Tertullian;
   
2. 
   Origen;
   
3. 
   Iustine;
   
4. 
   Valentine;
   
5. 
   Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite
   

5. 
   The first split of Christianity was split into the Orthodox and Catholic confessions. When did this split take place?
   

1. 
   1054
   
2. 
   980
   
3. 
   988
   
4. 
   900 (during Karl’s ruling);
   
5. 
   From the end of the 4^th to the beginning of the 5^th century (in the times of Augustine)
   

1. 
   define peculiarities of the Catholic tenets and cult;
   
2. 
   analyse the problems of the social doctrine of the modern Catholicism;
   
3. 
   interpret characteristic features of the Greek-Catholic doctrine;
   
4. 
   define preconnditions of appearance and peculiarities of Protestantism;
   
5. 
   differentiate dogmas and cult of Protestantism and its sects.
   

1. 
   Catholicism tenets and cult, the doctrine on Filioque, worship dogmas of Virgin Mary, pecularities of rites and sacraments.
   
2. 
   Modern social doctrine of the Caholic Church. Papal Encyclicals. Liberation theology. History of the Roman Popes.
   
3. 
   The Greek-Catholic Church: history and present time.
   
4. 
   History of Protestantism appearance as a special as a special denomination of Christianity. Peculiarities of Protestant tenets and theology.
   
5. 
   Main Protestant schools: Church of England, Lutheran Church, Calvinism, Quakers, Methodists, Methodist Church, Baptist Churches, Pentecostalism, Jehova’s Witnesses.
   
6. 
   History of penetration and spread of the late Protestantism in Ukraine.
   

1. 
   Doctrine on Filioque is of great importance for Christianity. What is its essence?
   

1. 
   – Holy Spirit proceeds from the God-Father and the God-Son;
   
2. 
   - Holy Spirit proceeds from the God-Father;
   
3. 
   - Holy Spirit proceeds from the God-Son;
   
4. 
   – Holy Spirit is an independent hypostasis;
   
5. 
   – Holy spirit is equal to the God-Father
   

2. 
   Not all Christian denominations accept the doctrine on Filioque. Which of the Christian denominations differs by its doctrine on filioque?
   

1. 
   – Catholicism;
   
2. 
   – Protestantism;
   
3. 
   – Orthodoxy;
   
4. 
   - Calvinism
   
5. 
   – Lutheran Church
   

3. 
   In its tenets and doctrines, Catholicism gives special place and role to…
   

1. 
   – Virgin Mary;
   
2. 
   – Jesus Christ;
   
3. 
   – Saint Anna;
   
4. 
   – John the Evangelist;
   
5. 
   – the Pope.
   

4. 
   Christianity was influenced by some historical events. Protestantism appeared as a result of…
   

1. 
   - Reformation
   
2. 
   - Revolution
   
3. 
   – Split of Christianity
   
4. 
   - Revolt
   
5. 
   – Cultural revolution
   

5. 
   Different denominations of Christianity have their origins. Protestantism appeared within…
   

1. 
   - Catholicism
   
2. 
   - Orthodoxy
   
3. 
   - Buddhism
   
4. 
   - Zoroastrianism
   
5. 
   - Judaism
   

6. 
   In its tenet, Protestantism has definite principles. The most important of them is…
   

1. 
   – General ordination;
   
2. 
   – Acceptance of the Christian dogmas;
   
3. 
   – Dogmas on Virgin Mary;
   
4. 
   – Common faith;
   
5. 
   – Principle of equality and brotherhood.
   

7. 
   Every religious system has its sources of tenets. Such source in Protestantism is…
   

1. 
   - Bible
   
2. 
   - Tripitaka
   
3. 
   - Encyclical
   
4. 
   - Torah
   
5. 
   - Vulgate
   

1. 
   to define Bible as a heritage of history and culture;
   
2. 
   to differentiate Bible’s structure and contents;
   
3. 
   to analyse problematics of the sacred text;
   
4. 
   to abstract Bible texts from the sacred contents.
   

1. 
   History of Bible’s appearance. Material, language and translation of Bible. Literature genres of Bible. Bible as a historic-culrural heritage.
   
2. 
   Christian tenet on God. God and his acts in the Old Testament. Jesus Christ is the Saviour and divine human in the New Testament. Discussion about God in Book of Job.
   
3. 
   The Old Testament about the world creation. Depravity of a person. Dualism of body and soul. Last Judgement and Doomsday. Revelation of John.
   
4. 
   Moral-ethical and social problematics in the books of prophets. Book of Job, Paul’s Epistles. Sermon on the Mount (ethics, image of an ideal person).
   
5. 
   Human being and sense of life in Ecclesiastes.
   
6. 
   Medical problematics of Bible.
   

1. 
   The sacred is a precondition of the religious cult. The sacred in religion can be defined as…
   

1. 
   – Attributing “sacred” contents to speeches, people, natural and social phenomena;
   
2. 
   – Attributing “sacred’ contents to everything that exists;
   
3. 
   – Dividing of all phenomena and processes into “sacred” and “not sacred”;
   
4. 
   – Subordination of every-day relations to religious influence;
   
5. 
   – Subordination of political and social institutes to religious influence.
   

2. 
   Sacralisation has its bases. It is…
   

1. 
   – Admitting of sacred as an opposite to secular;
   
2. 
   – Admitting of God’s superiority;
   
3. 
   – Opposition of God to a person;
   
4. 
   – God’s love of people;
   
5. 
   – Human love of God;
   

1. 
   – 13^th century BC – 2^nd century AD;
   
2. 
   – 13^th century BC – 1^st century BC;
   
3. 
   – 1^st century AD – 10^th century AD;
   
4. 
   – 5^th century AD – 10^th century AD;
   
5. 
   – 1^st century AD – 5^th century AD
   

1. 
   – Collection of the ancient ideological, historical and literary monuments;
   
2. 
   – Collection of the ancient narrations about heroes;
   
3. 
   – Collection of works of theologians and the faithful;
   
4. 
   – Collection of prayers;
   
5. 
   – Collection of narrations, poems and prayers.
   

1. 
   – Collection of books of the Old and New Testament;
   
2. 
   – Collection of books of the Old Testament;
   
3. 
   – Collection of books about Jesus Christ’s life;
   
4. 
   – Collection of books by John the Evangelist;
   
5. 
   – Collection of the Gospels.
   

1. 
   define peculiarities and specific features of Islam;
   
2. 
   analyse Muslim world view and its cult;
   
3. 
   differentiate denominations of Islam: extremism which uses Islam as a cover and moderate Islam.
   

1. 
   Appearance of Islam. Its turning into the world religion. Personality of Muhammad.
   
2. 
   Islam tenet and cult. Muslim written sources.
   
3. 
   Sunni and Shi’a – main denominations in Islam. Sufism.
   
4. 
   Muslim theology: Mu’tazili. Sects in Islam.
   

1. 
   Muhammd is the founder of Islam. When did he become the prophet of the new religion?
   

1. 
   - 610
   
2. 
   - 622
   
3. 
   - 628
   
4. 
   - 590
   
5. 
   - 593
   

1. 
   - 622
   
2. 
   - 602
   
3. 
   - 632
   
4. 
   - 988
   
5. 
   - 1054
   

1. 
   – creed;
   
2. 
   – symbol of cross;
   
3. 
   – symbol of clothes;
   
4. 
   – pillars of Islam;
   
5. 
   – path of Islam.
   

1. 
   – 5
   
2. 
   – 2
   
3. 
   – 3
   
4. 
   – 7
   
5. 
   – 9
   

1. 
   – Qur’an
   
2. 
   – Talmud
   
3. 
   – Bible
   
4. 
   – Lunyu
   
5. 
   – Torah
   

1. 
   to define interperetations of the Old and New Testament stories in the Qur’an;
   
2. 
   to define problematics of the Qur’an;
   
3. 
   analyse peculiar features of the scientific knowledge, medical evidence and moral norms in the Qur’an;
   
4. 
   desacralise surah texts.
   

1. 
   Qur’an as a historic-cultural heritage of the Arabic-muslim culture and the holy book of Islam. Origin, structure and contents of the Qur’an. Parable and allegorical character of the text.
   
2. 
   Interpretation of the Old and New Testament stories in the Qur’an. The Qur’an about the world order, hell and paradise.
   
3. 
   Doctrine about Allah and his prophet Muhammad in the Qur’an.
   
4. 
   Social problematics in the Qur’an: person, his life and afterlife. Conditionality of the freedom of will and religion.
   
5. 
   Scientific knowledge in the Qur’an. Medical evidence and moral norms of the Qur’an.
   

1. 
   – 7^th century AD.
   
2. 
   – 7^th century BC
   
3. 
   – 1^st century BC
   
4. 
   – 1^st century AD
   
5. 
   – 5^th century AD
   

1. 
   - 114
   
2. 
   - 100
   
3. 
   - 54
   
4. 
   - 164
   
5. 
   - 14
   

1. 
   – The Opening Sura (Al-Fatiha);
   
2. 
   – The Repentance (At-Tawba);
   
3. 
   – The Prophets (Al-Anbiya);
   
4. 
   – The Light (An-Noor);
   
5. 
   - the Day-break (Al-Falaq).
   

1. 
   - Allah
   
2. 
   - Moses
   
3. 
   – Jesus Christ
   
4. 
   - Muhammad
   
5. 
   – Ali
   

1. 
   – to ne sinless before Allah;
   
2. 
   – to be just and decent;
   
3. 
   – to think about social consequences of actions;
   
4. 
   – to think about own actions;
   
5. 
   – to think about punishment after death.
   

1. 
   to interpret characteristic and specific features of non-traditional religions.
   
2. 
   to analyse activity of non-traditional cults;
   
3. 
   to define basic stages of secularization;
   
4. 
   to differentiate integration tendencies, ecumenism and cross-religion dialogue.
   

1. 
   Non-traditional religions and cults: characteristic features and types (gospel, oriental, scientological, occult, Hare Krishna, L. Habbard’s Church of Scientology, etc.).
   
2. 
   Secularization as a social-historical process and its basic stages.
   
3. 
   Integration tendencies in modern religious doctrines. Ecumenism: expression of the tendencies of closing in (separation) between religions.
   
4. 
   Dialogue and co-operation between the faithful and unbelievers. Humanism as a basis of dialogue. The problem of relationship between religions in the modern world.
   

1. 
   – 20^th century;
   
2. 
   – 19^th century;
   
3. 
   – 18^th – 19^th century;
   
4. 
   – 18^th century;
   
5. 
   – 7^th century.
   

2. 
   Non-traditional religions have their typology. Such religions are divided into gospel, scientological, occult and…
   

1. 
   - oriental
   
2. 
   - historical
   
3. 
   - astrological
   
4. 
   - Druid
   

3. 
   Modern religious world “gave birth” to the ideas of ecumenism. First, ecumenism appeared as…
   

1. 
   – movement for unity of all christian religions;
   
2. 
   – movement for church liberation;
   
3. 
   – unity of all churces and denominations;
   
4. 
   – unity of all faithful;
   
5. 
   – movemnt for unity of all churches
   

4. 
   Ideas of secularization were spread in society. Secularization should be understood as…
   

1. 
   – liberation of all spheres of public and social life from influence of religion and church;
   
2. 
   – liberation of religion and church from the state power;
   
3. 
   – movement within Christianity;
   
4. 
   – movement for liberation from the Pope;
   
5. 
   – liberation of scintific thought from religion.
   

5. 
   In the course of communication, contradictions can arise between the faithful and unbelievers. The basis of co-operation between them is…
   

1. 
   – humanism;
   
2. 
   – atehism;
   
3. 
   – pantheism;
   
4. 
   – deism;
   
5. 
   – sensualism.
   

Bases of religion development