The Variety of Religions: Concepts & Differentiation
The Variety of Religions: Concepts & Differentiation is one of 9 topics in the Grade 12 Religion Studies CAPS syllabus, covered across 3 lessons on Study Vault. Below are real practice questions from this topic with full worked answers.
Sample practice questions
Easy
1. Religion Studies, as an academic subject, primarily aims to:
Study religions objectively and comparatively rather than teaching or promoting religious practice
Train learners to practise the rituals of one specific religion
Convince learners that one religion is objectively correct
Discourage all forms of religious belief
Answer: Study religions objectively and comparatively rather than teaching or promoting religious practice — Religion Studies is an academic, comparative discipline that studies religions objectively, without promoting or advocating for any one religion or teaching religious practice.
Easy
2. In the study of religion, which concept refers to features found in one religion but not, in that exact combination, in others?
Uniqueness
Comparability
Similarity
Unity
Answer: Uniqueness — Uniqueness refers to features found in one religion but not, in that exact combination, in others, one of the core conceptual distinctions used in comparative Religion Studies.
Easy
3. In the conceptual toolkit of Religion Studies, "identity" refers to:
What makes a particular religion recognisably itself, its defining beliefs, practices and history
A person's national citizenship only
A synonym for uniqueness with no distinct meaning
A term used only in psychology, not religion
Answer: What makes a particular religion recognisably itself, its defining beliefs, practices and history — Identity, in this context, refers to what makes a particular religion recognisably itself: its defining beliefs, practices and history.
