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This section includes 1300 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your UGC-NET knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
Which theory states that God is existing apart from the world? |
| A. | pantheism |
| B. | deism |
| C. | monotheism |
| D. | theism |
| Answer» C. monotheism | |
| 102. |
Science and religion generally pursue knowledge of the ---------- using differentmethodologies |
| A. | mind |
| B. | sprit |
| C. | soul |
| D. | universe |
| Answer» E. | |
| 103. |
Theologians seeks to unfold a world-view, based on: |
| A. | religious experience |
| B. | religious beliefs |
| C. | religious dogmas |
| D. | religious postulates |
| Answer» E. | |
| 104. |
The -----------------------is the aim of philosophy of religion. |
| A. | spiritual realization |
| B. | god realisation |
| C. | liberation |
| D. | freedom |
| Answer» B. god realisation | |
| 105. |
------- seeks to raise religious doctrine to a philosophical form by exercising a freecriticism upon them. |
| A. | theology |
| B. | speculative theology |
| C. | neo-theology |
| D. | propositional theology |
| Answer» C. neo-theology | |
| 106. |
---------------is the core of philosophy of religion. |
| A. | rituals |
| B. | religious practice |
| C. | religious theories |
| D. | spirituality |
| Answer» E. | |
| 107. |
--------------------------can be stated and verified through symbols, figures and visions. |
| A. | religious theories |
| B. | religious experiences |
| C. | religious explanations |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. religious explanations | |
| 108. |
----------- can very well help us to reject superstitions and blind belief from the religion. |
| A. | reason |
| B. | intellect |
| C. | will |
| D. | experience |
| Answer» B. intellect | |
| 109. |
The philosophy of religion is based on ------------- as the fundamental principle ofknowledge. |
| A. | realism |
| B. | pluralism |
| C. | idealism |
| D. | monism |
| Answer» D. monism | |
| 110. |
Philosophy of religion generally committed on: |
| A. | reason |
| B. | intellect |
| C. | will |
| D. | emotion |
| Answer» B. intellect | |
| 111. |
The philosophy of religion is not an organ of -----------------. |
| A. | religious teaching |
| B. | religious theories |
| C. | religious analysis |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. religious theories | |
| 112. |
Hegel identified religion with the --------------------------of philosophy |
| A. | pure teleological notions |
| B. | pure ontological notions |
| C. | pure instrumental notions |
| D. | pure intellectual notions |
| Answer» E. | |
| 113. |
Philosophy of religion studies the concepts, propositions and arguments of : |
| A. | theologians |
| B. | priests |
| C. | religious practitioners |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. priests | |
| 114. |
--------------------------- is an intellectual and logical interpretation of religious experience. |
| A. | theology |
| B. | religion |
| C. | philosophy of religion |
| D. | religious experience |
| Answer» D. religious experience | |
| 115. |
Both ----------------------raise the life of man and society to a higher and nobler level |
| A. | science and art |
| B. | science and wealth |
| C. | philosophy and religion |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 116. |
Religious experience cannot be explained by ----------- |
| A. | intellect |
| B. | figures |
| C. | symbols |
| D. | analogy |
| Answer» B. figures | |
| 117. |
The relation between religion and philosophy is ------------- |
| A. | most contradictory |
| B. | most controversial |
| C. | most intimate |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 118. |
Herbert Spencer explains, “Religion is the humanity’s response to the --------------------.” |
| A. | divine |
| B. | personal god |
| C. | superhuman |
| D. | super power |
| Answer» B. personal god | |
| 119. |
Arnold says religion as, “ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by-----------------” |
| A. | willing |
| B. | feeling |
| C. | imagination |
| D. | practicing |
| Answer» C. imagination | |
| 120. |
Not only the theist, but -----------------------can philosophize about religion. |
| A. | the spiritualist and the pragmatic |
| B. | the spiritualist and the pragmatic |
| C. | the atheist and the agnostic |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 121. |
---------------explains, “Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of aPower which transcends our knowledge”. |
| A. | kant |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | william james |
| D. | herbert spencer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 122. |
Who defines religion as, “ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling”? |
| A. | swami vivekananda |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | mathew arnold |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» D. w.t stace | |
| 123. |
------------------- defines, religion, “a body of scruples which impede the free exercise ofour faculties” |
| A. | salomon reinach |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» B. hoffoding | |
| 124. |
Concise Oxford Dictionary defines; religion is “human recognition of a -----------controlling power and especially of a personal God or gods entitled to obedience and worship” |
| A. | cosmic |
| B. | super natural |
| C. | divine |
| D. | superhuman |
| Answer» E. | |
| 125. |
According to Kant “Religion is a matter of the: |
| A. | mind |
| B. | soul |
| C. | will |
| D. | intellect |
| Answer» D. intellect | |
| 126. |
Talcott Parsons defines, religion, “-------------------------------------which men have evolvedin various societies” |
| A. | values, morals and practices |
| B. | a set of myths and imaginations |
| C. | a set of beliefs, practices, and institutions |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 127. |
According to Whitehead, “Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond,behind, and within, the ------------ of immediate things.” |
| A. | relations |
| B. | continues waves |
| C. | stream |
| D. | passing flux |
| Answer» E. | |
| 128. |
W.T Stace defined “religion as the ------------------ for the impossible, the unattainable, theinconceivable.” |
| A. | hunger of the soul |
| B. | thirst of the mind |
| C. | quest of the intellect |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. thirst of the mind | |
| 129. |
To --------- “Religion is the consciousness of our practical relation to an invisible spiritualorder.” |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» C. william james | |
| 130. |
According to ------------------“Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond,behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things.” |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | whitehead |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» D. w.t stace | |
| 131. |
According to Alexander “Religion is--------------” |
| A. | faith in god |
| B. | faith in deity |
| C. | faith in nature |
| D. | faith in super power |
| Answer» C. faith in nature | |
| 132. |
To----------------------, religion is not in doctrines, in dogmas nor in intellectualargumentation; it is being and becoming, it is realization. |
| A. | swami vivekananda |
| B. | hoffoding |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» B. hoffoding | |
| 133. |
----------------- defines religion as, “the conservation of values.” |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | william james |
| D. | hoffoding |
| Answer» E. | |
| 134. |
“The feeling, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.” Whodefined religion in this way? |
| A. | alexander |
| B. | patric |
| C. | william james |
| D. | w.t stace |
| Answer» D. w.t stace | |
| 135. |
The term religion comes from the Latin word: |
| A. | religoen |
| B. | religeor |
| C. | religio |
| D. | religious |
| Answer» D. religious | |
| 136. |
The term Religio means: |
| A. | to found |
| B. | to revel |
| C. | to bind |
| D. | to worship |
| Answer» D. to worship | |
| 137. |
Religion is not mere conviction but: |
| A. | conduct |
| B. | customs |
| C. | behaviour |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. customs | |
| 138. |
According to Encyclopedia, the aim of phenomenological method is |
| A. | to establish phenomenology as empirical psychology |
| B. | to establish phenomenology as rigorous science |
| C. | to establish a dichotomy between essence and existence |
| D. | to establish mind-body dualism |
| Answer» C. to establish a dichotomy between essence and existence | |
| 139. |
Phenomenological intuition means |
| A. | simple seeing of sensory objects |
| B. | psychological intuition |
| C. | empirical intuition |
| D. | intuition of essences |
| Answer» E. | |
| 140. |
The best known contemporary advocate of phenomenological method is |
| A. | gadamar |
| B. | althusser |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | derrida |
| Answer» D. derrida | |
| 141. |
The acid test of a truly critical philosophy, according to Husserl was |
| A. | interpreting the world of existence |
| B. | ideal science of pure logic |
| C. | psychological analysis of cognitive processes |
| D. | the ideal of presuppositionless philosophy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 142. |
The objects of phenomenological seeing or intuition are |
| A. | monads |
| B. | spirits |
| C. | ideas |
| D. | essences |
| Answer» E. | |
| 143. |
The exclusion of the existence of the object in ‘Bracketing Existence’ Means |
| A. | suspension of our belief in the existence of objects |
| B. | eliminate existence of the object in general |
| C. | rejecting the reality of objects |
| D. | doubting the existence of objects as in descartes’ method of doubt |
| Answer» B. eliminate existence of the object in general | |
| 144. |
The method of phenomenology is transcendental in the sense that |
| A. | it aims at psychological phenomena |
| B. | it aims at disclosing the structures of consciousness |
| C. | it aims at a-priori elements of knowledge |
| D. | it aims at analytic –synthetic distinction |
| Answer» C. it aims at a-priori elements of knowledge | |
| 145. |
In phenomenology, the exclusion of subjectivity is called |
| A. | the rule of ‘objectivism’ |
| B. | the rule of ‘subjectivism’ |
| C. | the rule of skepticism |
| D. | the rule of science |
| Answer» B. the rule of ‘subjectivism’ | |
| 146. |
The method of phenomenological reduction demands |
| A. | reductionism |
| B. | denial or rejection of all beliefs |
| C. | suspension of our natural attitude |
| D. | skeptical outlook |
| Answer» D. skeptical outlook | |
| 147. |
In “Back to things themselves” “things” are taken to mean |
| A. | objects |
| B. | consciousness |
| C. | ideas |
| D. | the “given” |
| Answer» E. | |
| 148. |
C.S Peirce used the word ‘phenomena’ as |
| A. | things as they appear to us |
| B. | things as they are in themselves |
| C. | whatever is observed to be the case |
| D. | whatever is before mind, even illusory perceptions, imaginations or dreams |
| Answer» E. | |
| 149. |
Kant used the word ‘noumena’ for |
| A. | things as they appear to us |
| B. | things as they are in themselves |
| C. | whatever is observed to be the case |
| D. | whatever is before the mind |
| Answer» C. whatever is observed to be the case | |
| 150. |
The author of Neues Organon |
| A. | plato |
| B. | j.h.lambert |
| C. | hegel |
| D. | c.s.peirce |
| Answer» C. hegel | |