World Religions Quiz

Religions of the World

• Judaism: characterized by belief in one transcendent God, revealed to Abraham, Moses, and Hebrew prophets, with religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions.
• Bahaism: founded in Iraq in the mid-19th century by Mīrzā Ḥosayn ʿAlī Nūrī, known as Bahāʾ Allāh, meaning “Glory of God” in Arabic.
• Confucianism: the way of life propagated by Confucius in the 6th–5th century BC, followed by Chinese people for over two millennia, remaining the substance of learning, values, and social code.
• Jainism: Indian religion teaching spiritual purity and enlightenment through disciplined nonviolence (ahimsa) to all living creatures.
• Shintoism: traditional Japanese religious practices, beliefs, and attitudes, observed in social life and personal motivations of Japanese people.

Top Ten Religions in the World

• Christianity: major religion stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth in the 1st century CE.
• Islam: major world religion promulgated by the Prophet Muhammad in Arabia in the 7th century CE, based on surrender to the will of Allah (God).
• Hinduism: major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent, comprising varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual.
• Buddhism: religion and philosophy developed from the teachings of the Buddha, a teacher who lived in northern India between the mid-6th and mid-4th centuries BCE.
• Sikhism: religion originating in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, present-day Pakistan, around the end of the 15th century CE.
• Judaism: monotheistic religion developed among ancient Hebrews.

Ethics and Religion

• The relationship between religion and ethics is about the connection between revelation and reason.
• Extrinsic religiosity: treating religion as a means to obtain extrinsic goals rather than valuing it for its own sake.

Freedom of Religion in the Philippines

• The Philippine Constitution (Article III, Section 5) guarantees freedom of religion, prohibiting laws that establish or prohibit the free exercise of religion.
• The National Internal Revenue Code (Section 30E) exempts non-stock corporations organized for religious, charitable, scientific, athletic, or cultural purposes from taxation.
• The government allows the teaching of religion in all public schools, with classrooms and classes held within the class hour of the day, like an academic subject.
• Religious freedom includes freedom to believe, freedom to practice, and equal observance for all denominations, indigenous, foreign founded, or locally originated.