Chapters 11-13

Question 1

Universalizing religions

Answer 1

Religions that try to find converts due to them offering belief systems of universal appeal

Question 2

Ethnic Religions

Answer 2

Religions that are cast appropriate only for certain ethnic groups

Question 3

Syncretic religion

Answer 3

A religion that has elements from various cultural sources

Question 4

Syncretism

Answer 4

Having elements of different cultural sources

Question 5

Secularism

Answer 5

Rejection of religious beliefs and affiliations

Question 6

Animistic religions

Answer 6

Religions that revere inanimate objects

Question 7

Caste system

Answer 7

The Indian society in which the castes are steps on the universal ladder and it locks people to specific social classes

Question 8

Reincarnation

Answer 8

A principle of Hinduism that involves you being born into many organisms such as that of animals depending on your actions

Question 9

Untouchables

Answer 9

A group of people that are in the lowest caste of the caste system

Question 10

Diaspora

Answer 10

It signifies Jews scattering after the destruction of Jerusalem due to the Romans

Question 11

Major religions of the USA

Answer 11

In the west, it mostly mixed in the north, Lutheran in the south, baptist and Spanish catholic, in the east, Methodist

Question 12

Diffusion of religions

Answer 12

The diffusion of Islam would be hierarchical and for Christianity it would be both expansion and relocation diffusion

Question 13

Interfaith boundaries

Answer 13

Boundaries that separate the major faiths

Question 14

Nigeria

Answer 14

A country conflicted by ethnic tensions such as that between that of the the Hausa-Fulani and the Ibo

Question 15

Sudan

Answer 15

A country conflicted by religious conflict between the Muslims and Christians

Question 16

Sharia religious laws

Answer 16

Laws that impose harsh codes especially for that of crime

Question 17

Exclave

Answer 17

A territory surrounded by another territory but not completely in which it has ethnically and culturally diverse people

Question 18

Enclave

Answer 18

A territory completely surrounded by another territory

Question 19

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 19

A term that described the forced leaving of muslims and occasionally their killing.

Question 20

Islamic republic

Answer 20

Muslim leaders called for this after seeing parallel in Iran

Question 21

Jihad

Answer 21

A Islamic holy war against the west

Question 22

Ayatollah

Answer 22

A supreme religious leader

Question 23

Infidels

Answer 23

Non-believers of religion

Question 24

Islamic fundamentalism

Answer 24

Through the Muslim realm, not every community follows the rules of the Quran

Question 25

Christian fundamentalism

Answer 25

The Roman Catholic Church has refused new ideas that are incompatible to the faith. A dispute would be birth control.

Question 26

Ireland

Answer 26

In Ireland, there are problems between a Protestant majority and catholic minority over their coexistence