10 Questions
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:
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
Match the following historical figures with their contribution to self-reflection:
Montaigne = Pioneering early-modern self Marguerite de Navarre = Focus on encountering God inwardly Milton = Democratizing religious solitude Hamlet = Role of reading in self-transformation
The act of being alone has been understood as an essential dimension of ______ experience
religious
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 ______
priest
Religious solitude is a kind of self-correcting social mechanism, a way of burning out the underbrush of moral habit and spiritual ______
custom
Calvinism created the modern self by focusing the soul inward, leaving it to encounter God, like a prophet of old, in 'profound ______'
isolation
Reading, as Robinson puts it, 'is an act of great inwardness and ______'
subjectivity
Test your knowledge on the culture of celebrity and connectivity in the contemporary self. Explore the convergence of technology, the desire for recognition, and the importance of interconnection in today's society.
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