Chapter 6 Key Issue 1

Question 0

What is an ethnic religion?

Answer 0

Appeals to primarily one group of people living in one place.

Question 1

What is a universalizing religion?

Answer 1

A religion that attempts to be global and appeal to all people.

Question 2

Over __% practice a universalizing religion.

Answer 2

50

Question 3

What are the three main universalizing religions?

Answer 3

Christianity
Islam
Buddhism

Question 4

What is a branch?

Answer 4

A large and fundamental division within a religion.

Question 5

What is a denomination?

Answer 5

A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.

Question 6

What is a sect?

Answer 6

A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.

Question 7

What is the most practiced religion?

Answer 7

Christianity

Question 8

Which religion has the most widespread distribution?

Answer 8

Christianity

Question 9

_____ is the predominant religion in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia

Answer 9

Christianity

Question 10

What are the three branches of Christianity?

Answer 10

Roman Catholic
Protestant
Orthodox

Question 11

Which branch consists of about 50% of Christians?

Answer 11

Roman Catholic

Question 12

______ is the dominant branch of Christianity in southwest and Eastern Europe

Answer 12

Roman Catholic

Question 13

_____ is a branch that consists of about 24% of Christians

Answer 13

Protestant

Question 14

______ is the dominant branch of Christianity in northwestern Europe

Answer 14

Protestant

Question 15

_____ is the branch that makes up about 11% of Christianity.

Answer 15

Orthodox

Question 16

_____ is the branch of Christianity dominant in east and southeastern Europe.

Answer 16

Orthodox

Question 17

What percent of the Western Hemisphere is Christian?

Answer 17

90

Question 18

What churches have the largest number of adherents in the us?

Answer 18

Baptist

Question 19

_____ is the predominant religion in the Middle East from North Africa to Central Asia.

Answer 19

Islam

Question 20

What are the two branches of Islam?

Answer 20

Sunni

Shiite

Question 21

What percent of Muslims are Sunni?

Answer 21

83%

Question 22

What is the largest branch in most Muslim countries?

Answer 22

Sunni

Question 23

What branch of Islam consists of 16% of Muslims?

Answer 23

Shiite

Question 24

How is Shiite dispersed?

Answer 24

It is clustered in a handful of countries.

Question 25

Which country holds about 90% of the Shiite population?

Answer 25

Iran

Question 26

What percentage of people in Europe are Muslim?

Answer 26

5%

Question 27

Which country in Europe has the largest Muslim population?

Answer 27

France

Question 28

Where is Buddhism mainly found?

Answer 28

China and Southeast Asia

Question 29

What are the three branches of Buddhism?

Answer 29

Mahayana Theravada Tantrayana

Question 30

____ is the branch the consists of 57% of Buddhists

Answer 30

Mahayana

Question 31

Where is Mahayana mainly found?

Answer 31

China Japan Korea

Question 32

_____ is the branch that contains about 38% of Buddhists

Answer 32

Theravada

Question 33

Where is Theravada mainly found? 5 countries

Answer 33

``` Cambodia Laos Myanmar Sri Lanka Thailand ```

Question 34

______ is the branch that makes up 6% of Buddhists

Answer 34

Tantrayana

Question 35

What two countries is tantrayana mainly found in?

Answer 35

Tibet | Mongolia

Question 36

Where is Sikhism clustered?

Answer 36

In the Punjab region of India

Question 37

Where is Baha'is found?

Answer 37

Many countries in Africa and Asia

Question 38

What is the largest ethnic religion?

Answer 38

Hinduism

Question 39

Where are most ethnic religions found?

Answer 39

Africa and Asia

Question 40

What place is Hinduism in for largest religions?

Answer 40

3rd

Question 41

______% of Hinduism is clustered in ______

Answer 41

97 | India

Question 42

Where is most of the remaining 3% of Hinduism found?

Answer 42

Nepal

Question 43

Hindus make up more than ____% of India and Nepal

Answer 43

80

Question 44

How do Hindus believe in worshipping god?

Answer 44

They believe it is up to the individual.

Question 45

People who practice Buddhism are allowed to __________________

Answer 45

Practice another religion

Question 46

What are the main two religions Buddhists also follow?

Answer 46

Confucianism | Daoism

Question 47

Who was Confucius, founder of Confucianism?

Answer 47

A philosopher and teacher in china

Question 48

Where was Daoism banned?

Answer 48

China

Question 49

Where is Daoism still legal and practiced?

Answer 49

Taiwan

Question 50

______ is the distinctive ethnic religion of Japan

Answer 50

Shintoism

Question 51

What does Shintoism consider?

Answer 51

Forces of nature are divine

Question 52

Where are 1/3 of Jews found?

Answer 52

1/3 in US and 1/3 in Israel

Question 53

What is monotheism?

Answer 53

Belief in only one god

Question 54

What are traditional African religions sometimes called?

Answer 54

Animism

Question 55

What percentage of African people still follow animism?

Answer 55

12%

Question 56

What do animists believe in?

Answer 56

Inanimate objects in nature have discrete spirits and conscious life.