Which of the following statements is true with regard to the relationship between religious identity and democracy?
A. The relationship between religious identity and democracy has high academic value but low practical relevance.
B. All religions fundamentally foster the principles of democracy and religious freedom.
C. The fact that religion is often used as a mobilizational tool by leaders makes it imperative to study its role in politics.
D. Though religion, ethnicity, and nationalism are linked, religion is the least potent influencing factor of the three, according to Samuel Huntington.
E. The majority of countries following Islam have emerged as the strongest advocates of democracy.
C
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a. One-fourth b. One-third c. One-half d. Two-thirds
In 1830, Congress instructed the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which Congress had established in 1824 as part of the War Department, to:
A) abolish the practice of slavery among Native Americans. B) assimilate American Indians into the American society. C) ban Native Americans from having gambling operations. D) remove all tribes to reservations west of the Mississippi River in order to free land east of the Mississippi for white settlement. E) uphold the terms set in the Northwest Ordinance, passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1787.
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