Chapeter 6 Vocab Flashcards
The belief that inanimate objects contain spirits and a conscious life
Animism
A religious group which is self-sufficient
Autonomous region
A large and fundamental division within a religion
Branch
Religion founded in the 6th century BC and characterized by the belief that enlightenment would come through the following the eightfold path
Buddhism
The social structure or class system and distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu has been assigned
Caste
Religion based on the teaching of Jesus
Christianity
Philosophy of ethics education and public service based on the writings of Confucius
Confucianism
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
Cosmogony
A division of a branch that united a number of local congressions
Denomination
From Greek “to disperse”
Diaspora
The basic unit of area administered by the Roman Catholic Church
Diocese
Arose from the division of the Roman Empire by emperor dicletian
Easter Orthodox Church
Will not seek converts
Ethnic religion
The literal interpretation and strict adherence
Fundamentalism
Literally “wind-water”
Feng Shui
Part of a European city where Jewish people were forced to live
Ghetto
Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca
Hajj
Religion that has a well defined geographic structure that organizes territory into local administrative units
Hierarchical religion
Religion founded over 4000 years ago in the Indus River Valley
Hinduism
Belief system and philosophies practiced and traditionally passed from generation to generation among peoples within an indigenous tribe
Indigenous religion
Boundaries between the worlds major faiths
Interfaith boundaries
Boundaries within a single major faith
Intrafaith boundaries
Youngest world religion based on the teachings of Muhammad
Islam
Doctrine within Islam
Jihad
Religion with its roots in the teachings of Abraham
Judaism
Tower attached to a Muslim mosque
Minarets
People who carried the message of Jesus Christ along the Roman Empires protected sea routes
Missionary
The belief in one god
Monotheism
A religious journey typically to the holy site
Pilgrimage
The belief in multiple gods
Polytheism
Arose from challenging the Roman Catholic Church by many individuals
Protestant
A system of beliefs and practices that attempt to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities
Religion
Religious movement whose objectives are to influence state policy
Religious fundamentalism
Religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence
Religious extremism
Arose from Rome after the splitting of the Roman Empire
Roman Catholic Church
Place or space people infuse with religious meaning
Sacred sites
Relatively small group that had broken away from an established denomination
Sect
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
Secularism
community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their Shaman- a religious leader
Shamanism
System of Islamic law based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Quran
Sharia laws
The represent the Persian variations of Islam
Shiite
Religion located in Japan focused strongly on worship of nature and ancestor worship
Shintoism
A day of religious significance in some ethnic religions because of its relationship to nature the sun and moon
Solstice
Adherents to the largest branch of Islam called the orthodox or traditionalists
Sunni
Religion founded by Lao- Tsu and based on his book “Book of the Way”
Taoism
Attempt to be a global religion
Universalizing religion
Movement to unite the Jewish people of the diaspora
Zionism
