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Chapeter 6 Vocab Flashcards

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1
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The belief that inanimate objects contain spirits and a conscious life

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Animism

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A religious group which is self-sufficient

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Autonomous region

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A large and fundamental division within a religion

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Branch

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Religion founded in the 6th century BC and characterized by the belief that enlightenment would come through the following the eightfold path

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Buddhism

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The social structure or class system and distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu has been assigned

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Caste

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Religion based on the teaching of Jesus

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Christianity

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Philosophy of ethics education and public service based on the writings of Confucius

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Confucianism

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A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe

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Cosmogony

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A division of a branch that united a number of local congressions

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Denomination

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From Greek “to disperse”

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Diaspora

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The basic unit of area administered by the Roman Catholic Church

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Diocese

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Arose from the division of the Roman Empire by emperor dicletian

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Easter Orthodox Church

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Will not seek converts

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Ethnic religion

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The literal interpretation and strict adherence

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Fundamentalism

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Literally “wind-water”

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Feng Shui

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Part of a European city where Jewish people were forced to live

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Ghetto

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Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca

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Hajj

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Religion that has a well defined geographic structure that organizes territory into local administrative units

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Hierarchical religion

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Religion founded over 4000 years ago in the Indus River Valley

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Hinduism

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Belief system and philosophies practiced and traditionally passed from generation to generation among peoples within an indigenous tribe

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Indigenous religion

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Boundaries between the worlds major faiths

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Interfaith boundaries

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Boundaries within a single major faith

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Intrafaith boundaries

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Youngest world religion based on the teachings of Muhammad

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Islam

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Doctrine within Islam

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Jihad

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Religion with its roots in the teachings of Abraham

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Judaism

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Tower attached to a Muslim mosque

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Minarets

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People who carried the message of Jesus Christ along the Roman Empires protected sea routes

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Missionary

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The belief in one god

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Monotheism

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A religious journey typically to the holy site

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Pilgrimage

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The belief in multiple gods

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Polytheism

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Arose from challenging the Roman Catholic Church by many individuals

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Protestant

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A system of beliefs and practices that attempt to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities

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Religion

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Religious movement whose objectives are to influence state policy

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Religious fundamentalism

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Religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence

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Religious extremism

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Arose from Rome after the splitting of the Roman Empire

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Roman Catholic Church

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Place or space people infuse with religious meaning

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Sacred sites

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Relatively small group that had broken away from an established denomination

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Sect

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The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for like on earth not to accommodate the prescriptions of a deity and promises of a comfortable after life

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Secularism

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community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their Shaman- a religious leader

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Shamanism

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System of Islamic law based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Quran

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Sharia laws

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The represent the Persian variations of Islam

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Shiite

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Religion located in Japan focused strongly on worship of nature and ancestor worship

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Shintoism

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A day of religious significance in some ethnic religions because of its relationship to nature the sun and moon

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Solstice

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Adherents to the largest branch of Islam called the orthodox or traditionalists

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Sunni

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Religion founded by Lao- Tsu and based on his book “Book of the Way”

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Taoism

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Attempt to be a global religion

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Universalizing religion

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Movement to unite the Jewish people of the diaspora

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Zionism

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