HUG vocab chap 6

Question 1

atheism

Answer 1

belief that god doesn’t exist

Question 2

agnosticism

Answer 2

belief that the existence of God can’t be proven or disproven empirically

Question 3

universalizing religion

Answer 3

attempt to be global, appeal to all people wherever they live, not just people of one culture/location

Question 4

ethnic religion

Answer 4

appeal primarily to one ethnic or cultural group, or people of a specific region

Question 5

denomination

Answer 5

united a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body

Question 6

branch

Answer 6

large and fundamental division within a religion

Question 7

syncretic

Answer 7

combines several traditions

Question 8

animism

Answer 8

belief that objects, like plants, or natural events, like thunderstorms, have discrete spirit and conscious life

Question 9

missionary

Answer 9

person who helps transmit a universalizing religion through relocation diffusion

Question 10

henotheism

Answer 10

recognize many different deities but only worship a few

Question 11

sacred site

Answer 11

place of great importance of meaning to the followers

Question 12

diaspora

Answer 12

scattering of people from their homeland

Question 13

ghettos

Answer 13

city neighborhood set up by law to be inhabited only by jews

Question 14

pilgrimage

Answer 14

religious journey to place considered sacred

Question 15

utopian settlement

Answer 15

community built to reflect ideas of a particular religious or social group

Question 16

autonomous religionq

Answer 16

doesn’t have central authority but shares ideas and coorporates informally

Question 17

hierarchical religion

Answer 17

religion with a central authority

Question 18

fundamentalism

Answer 18

literal interpretation and strict and intense adherence to what the fundamentalists define as basic principles of the religion

Question 19

caste

Answer 19

class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law

Question 20

polytheism

Answer 20

belief in existence of many gods

Question 21

monotheism

Answer 21

belief of existence of 1 god

Question 22

interfaith boundary

Answer 22

conflict between 2 or more religions

Question 23

intrafaith boundary

Answer 23

conflict within a religion

Question 24

sect

Answer 24

relatively small group that broke away from a bigger group

Question 25

sharia law

Answer 25

Islamic law derived from Quran and Hadith governing various aspects of a Muslims life including moral, ethical and legal matters

Question 26

zionism

Answer 26

movement to recreate a Jewish presence in israel

Question 27

religious extremism

Answer 27

religious fundamentalism to a point of violence or terrorism