Chapter 5 Flashcards
A polytheistic religion refers to
belief in multiple deities.
Which religions are universalizing?
Christianity,Islam,Buddhism,and Sikhism
According to the beliefs of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Australia, the time when the Earth was transformed from a featureless and inactive realm into the world as we know it is known as
Dream time
Name the only country in which the majority of the population is Jewish.
Israel
Christianity is the largest religion in the world with an estimated number of adherents totaling
2.3 billion
Sanatana dharma , meaning “eternal truth,” is the name some
Hindus
The smallest of the major universalizing religions is
Sikhism
The scattering of a people through forced migration is known as
Diaspora
Which region constitutes the hearth of Christianity?
Palestine
List the characteristics that define a sacred space.
Specific places, and sites that are recognize for their sanctity.
An intellectual movement that encourages scientific thought, the expansion of knowledge, and belief in the inevitability of progress is known as
Modernism
is the fastest growing branch within Christianity.
Renewalism
The fastest growing religion in the world is
Islam
One of the goals of the
Zionism
Historian Lynn White, Jr. addressed the relationship between
Environmental and religion
The religions classified as Abrahamic faiths are:
Judaism, Christianity and Islam
What characterizes Mahayana Buddhism?
Compassionate
Geographer Ken Foote has demonstrated how sacred sites develop and gain significance within the context of civil religion through the study of
Landscapes of fra edy
The identify four social classes called Vedas Varnas,ranked on the basis of _
Purity
What are the characteristics of Islam?
2nd largest religion, sometimes classified as an Brahmin faith, five pillars of faith.
Shiites make up a majority of the population which countries?
Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Bahrain
Sikhism bears the influences of these two religions,
Islam and Hinduism
Normally cremate the deceased
Theravada Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs.
Which movement sees the need for sharia to be flexible and open to different interpretations in order to apply in today’s society?
Modernism
In the Hindu cosmogony, what is the supreme spiritual source and sustainer of the universe?
Brahman
The Dreamtime is associated with what two sacred realms in Aboriginal religious beliefs?
Time and Place
What are the two main branches of Islam?
Sunnis and Shiites
Why are there two branches
It was split over who should succeed Mohammed (left no successor)
Cite three reasons why a pilgrimage might be conducted
Purify the soul, demonstrate devotion, and to fulfill a vow
Name two of the four noble truths of Buddhism
Life brings suffering, desire leads to suffering
What are the two meanings of the phrase jihad, or holy war?
A personal struggle to uphold the tenets of the faith or as a defense of Islam from threads posed by non believers.
