chapter 7 textbook Flashcards
Secularism
InDifference to or rejection of formal religion
Animistic religions
Centred in the belief that inanimate objects such as mountains boulders rivers and trees possess spirits and should therefore be revered
Universalizing religions
Actively seek converts because they view themselves as offering belief systems of universal appropriateness and appeal
Ethnic religion
Members born in, converts not actively sought
Hinduism points
- karma has to do with transferability if the soul
- reincarnation thru union with Brahman
- related to India’s caste system
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Syncretic religions
Aka compromise religions. Basically take parts of a religion
Buddhism points
From Hinduism
-enlightenment thru knowledge
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Shintoism
Relates to Buddhism
-Popular I japan
Taoism
- unclear origins
- people should live in harmony with nature
- feng shui- art and science of organizing living spaces in order to channel the life forces that exist in nature in favourable ways
According to feng shui
Nothing should be done to nature without consulting geomancers, people who know the desires of the powerful spirits of ancestors and other beings that occupy the natural world and can give advice on how to order things
Confucianism
Mainly a philosophy life and like Taoism it had a great and lasting impacts on Chinese life
Diaspora
A term that signifies the spatial dispersion if members of any ethnic group
-originates from scattering of Jews after the Roman destruction of jersusalem
Zionism
Zionist ideals are rooted in the belief that Jews should not be absorbed into other societies
Islam
Youngest if major religions
- traced back to single founder, Muhammad
- believed allah already shown himself
Indigenous religions
Local is scope usually have a reverence for nature - passed down thru family units and groups of indigenous peoples
Shamanism
Community faith in which people follow their shaman, a religious leader, teacher, Healy, and visionary
Secularism
Indifference to it rejection of organized religious affiliations and ideas
Pilgrimage
When adhérents voluntarily travel to a religious site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site the act of travel
Sacred sites
Places or spaces people infuse with religious meanings
Minarets
Tower starched to a Muslim mosque having one or more projecting balconies fro. Which a crier calls muslims to prayer
Hajj
One of the 5 pillars of Islam
Inter vs interfaith boundaries
Between vs within a faith
Boko haram translation
Western education is forbidden
Activity space
The space within which daily activity occurs
— protestants and Catholics chose to seperare themselves in this fashion
Religious fundamentalism
Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy
Religious extremism
Fundamentalism carries to the point of violence
Jihad
Islamic holy ear
