Chapter 6 Key Issue 1 Flashcards
What is an ethnic religion?
Appeals to primarily one group of people living in one place.
What is a universalizing religion?
A religion that attempts to be global and appeal to all people.
Over __% practice a universalizing religion.
50
What are the three main universalizing religions?
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
What is a branch?
A large and fundamental division within a religion.
What is a denomination?
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.
What is a sect?
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.
What is the most practiced religion?
Christianity
Which religion has the most widespread distribution?
Christianity
_____ is the predominant religion in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia
Christianity
What are the three branches of Christianity?
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Orthodox
Which branch consists of about 50% of Christians?
Roman Catholic
______ is the dominant branch of Christianity in southwest and Eastern Europe
Roman Catholic
_____ is a branch that consists of about 24% of Christians
Protestant
______ is the dominant branch of Christianity in northwestern Europe
Protestant
_____ is the branch that makes up about 11% of Christianity.
Orthodox
_____ is the branch of Christianity dominant in east and southeastern Europe.
Orthodox
What percent of the Western Hemisphere is Christian?
90
What churches have the largest number of adherents in the us?
Baptist
_____ is the predominant religion in the Middle East from North Africa to Central Asia.
Islam
What are the two branches of Islam?
Sunni
Shiite
What percent of Muslims are Sunni?
83%
What is the largest branch in most Muslim countries?
Sunni
What branch of Islam consists of 16% of Muslims?
Shiite
How is Shiite dispersed?
It is clustered in a handful of countries.
Which country holds about 90% of the Shiite population?
Iran
What percentage of people in Europe are Muslim?
5%
Which country in Europe has the largest Muslim population?
France
Where is Buddhism mainly found?
China and Southeast Asia
What are the three branches of Buddhism?
Mahayana
Theravada
Tantrayana
____ is the branch the consists of 57% of Buddhists
Mahayana
Where is Mahayana mainly found?
China
Japan
Korea
_____ is the branch that contains about 38% of Buddhists
Theravada
Where is Theravada mainly found? 5 countries
Cambodia Laos Myanmar Sri Lanka Thailand
______ is the branch that makes up 6% of Buddhists
Tantrayana
What two countries is tantrayana mainly found in?
Tibet
Mongolia
Where is Sikhism clustered?
In the Punjab region of India
Where is Baha’is found?
Many countries in Africa and Asia
What is the largest ethnic religion?
Hinduism
Where are most ethnic religions found?
Africa and Asia
What place is Hinduism in for largest religions?
3rd
______% of Hinduism is clustered in ______
97
India
Where is most of the remaining 3% of Hinduism found?
Nepal
Hindus make up more than ____% of India and Nepal
80
How do Hindus believe in worshipping god?
They believe it is up to the individual.
People who practice Buddhism are allowed to __________________
Practice another religion
What are the main two religions Buddhists also follow?
Confucianism
Daoism
Who was Confucius, founder of Confucianism?
A philosopher and teacher in china
Where was Daoism banned?
China
Where is Daoism still legal and practiced?
Taiwan
______ is the distinctive ethnic religion of Japan
Shintoism
What does Shintoism consider?
Forces of nature are divine
Where are 1/3 of Jews found?
1/3 in US and 1/3 in Israel
What is monotheism?
Belief in only one god
What are traditional African religions sometimes called?
Animism
What percentage of African people still follow animism?
12%
What do animists believe in?
Inanimate objects in nature have discrete spirits and conscious life.
