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Quiz V Study Guide (Greed)
Humanities 102: Introduction to Western Civilization
Mr. Vehse

1. Phyllis Tickle is the author of our current text, Greed. What is Ms. Tickle's profession?
-A religion editor for a trade journal
2. How does Tickle define or, if you like, describe religion?
-From that perspective, religion is most accurately seen as a rope or cable of meaning that stretches through human history and has anchored, in one form or another, every culture or subculture of human society from its beginning

3. The metaphor Tickle uses to describe religion invokes the notion of strands, as in strings or threads. How many strands does she cite in her description of religion? the strands are three in number: spirituality, corporeality, and morality.

4. The threads of religion are held together, according to Tickle, by an insulating, porous “inner sleeve.” What is this sleeve that holds together the strands of religion?
Common or shared imagination

5. The sleeve and inner strands of religion are “protected,” according to Tickle, by an outer casing or skin. What is this supposedly protective casing?
A story
6. When the outer casing and inner sleeve of religion rupture or are torn and the inner strands “are exposed to view,” what generally happens to religion, according to Tickle?
Culture must start over, however positioning will never be the same
7. During what centuries, according to Tickle, has religion in the Western world undergone the most radical transformation of “rupturing, configuring, and informing” since the Protestant Reformation?
20th
8. How, according to Tickle, has the “spirituality” of Americans significantly changed in the most recent major shift of thinking with respect to matters of religion? it is now more appreciated among us than it was a century ago, but it is also considerably less voguish than it was, for instance, three decades ago

9. Tickle refers to “overt and institutionalized evidences of religion--its real

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