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Chapter 6 Key Issue 1 Flashcards

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What is an ethnic religion?

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

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What is a universalizing religion?

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

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Over __% practice a universalizing religion.

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50

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What are the three main universalizing religions?

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Christianity
Islam
Buddhism

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What is a branch?

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A large and fundamental division within a religion.

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What is a denomination?

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

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What is a sect?

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

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What is the most practiced religion?

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Christianity

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Which religion has the most widespread distribution?

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Christianity

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

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Christianity

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What are the three branches of Christianity?

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Roman Catholic
Protestant
Orthodox

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Which branch consists of about 50% of Christians?

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Roman Catholic

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

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Roman Catholic

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

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Protestant

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______ is the dominant branch of Christianity in northwestern Europe

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Protestant

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

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Orthodox

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

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Orthodox

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17
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What percent of the Western Hemisphere is Christian?

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90

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

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Baptist

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

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Islam

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What are the two branches of Islam?

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Sunni

Shiite

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21
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What percent of Muslims are Sunni?

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83%

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What is the largest branch in most Muslim countries?

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Sunni

23
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What branch of Islam consists of 16% of Muslims?

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Shiite

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How is Shiite dispersed?

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It is clustered in a handful of countries.

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Which country holds about 90% of the Shiite population?

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Iran

26
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What percentage of people in Europe are Muslim?

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5%

27
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Which country in Europe has the largest Muslim population?

A

France

28
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Where is Buddhism mainly found?

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China and Southeast Asia

29
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What are the three branches of Buddhism?

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Mahayana
Theravada
Tantrayana

30
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____ is the branch the consists of 57% of Buddhists

A

Mahayana

31
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Where is Mahayana mainly found?

A

China
Japan
Korea

32
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_____ is the branch that contains about 38% of Buddhists

A

Theravada

33
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Where is Theravada mainly found? 5 countries

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Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
Sri Lanka
Thailand
34
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______ is the branch that makes up 6% of Buddhists

A

Tantrayana

35
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What two countries is tantrayana mainly found in?

A

Tibet

Mongolia

36
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Where is Sikhism clustered?

A

In the Punjab region of India

37
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Where is Baha’is found?

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Many countries in Africa and Asia

38
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What is the largest ethnic religion?

A

Hinduism

39
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Where are most ethnic religions found?

A

Africa and Asia

40
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What place is Hinduism in for largest religions?

A

3rd

41
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______% of Hinduism is clustered in ______

A

97

India

42
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Where is most of the remaining 3% of Hinduism found?

A

Nepal

43
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Hindus make up more than ____% of India and Nepal

A

80

44
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How do Hindus believe in worshipping god?

A

They believe it is up to the individual.

45
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People who practice Buddhism are allowed to __________________

A

Practice another religion

46
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What are the main two religions Buddhists also follow?

A

Confucianism

Daoism

47
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Who was Confucius, founder of Confucianism?

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A philosopher and teacher in china

48
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Where was Daoism banned?

A

China

49
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Where is Daoism still legal and practiced?

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Taiwan

50
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______ is the distinctive ethnic religion of Japan

A

Shintoism

51
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What does Shintoism consider?

A

Forces of nature are divine

52
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Where are 1/3 of Jews found?

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1/3 in US and 1/3 in Israel

53
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What is monotheism?

A

Belief in only one god

54
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What are traditional African religions sometimes called?

A

Animism

55
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What percentage of African people still follow animism?

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12%

56
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What do animists believe in?

A

Inanimate objects in nature have discrete spirits and conscious life.

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