Contemporary Self: Celebrity and Connectivity Quiz
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Match the following characters with their significant literary work:

Tiresias = Greek mythology Teresa = Catholic saint Calvin = Reformation thinker Don Quixote = Spanish novel

Match the following terms with their corresponding definitions:

Solitude = Being alone as a societal value Egregious = Remarkably outstanding Profound isolation = Encountering God inwardly Romanticism = Secularized religious values

Match the following settings with their association to religious experience:

Desert or forest or cave = Places for vision quests Monastery = Solitary encounter with God Church congregation = Communal experience Printing press era = Democratization of religious values

Match the following activities with their purpose in religious practice:

<p>Trances and vision quests = Seeking divine guidance Reading religious texts = Encountering God through introspection Sitting in solitude = Burning out moral habit and spiritual custom Participating in communal worship = Reaffirming societal norms</p> Signup and view all the answers

Match the following historical figures with their contribution to self-reflection:

<p>Montaigne = Pioneering early-modern self Marguerite de Navarre = Focus on encountering God inwardly Milton = Democratizing religious solitude Hamlet = Role of reading in self-transformation</p> Signup and view all the answers

The act of being alone has been understood as an essential dimension of ______ experience

<p>religious</p> Signup and view all the answers

You cannot hear God when people are chattering at you, and the divine word, their pretensions notwithstanding, demurs at descending on the monarch and the ______

<p>priest</p> Signup and view all the answers

Religious solitude is a kind of self-correcting social mechanism, a way of burning out the underbrush of moral habit and spiritual ______

<p>custom</p> Signup and view all the answers

Calvinism created the modern self by focusing the soul inward, leaving it to encounter God, like a prophet of old, in 'profound ______'

<p>isolation</p> Signup and view all the answers

Reading, as Robinson puts it, 'is an act of great inwardness and ______'

<p>subjectivity</p> Signup and view all the answers

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