Key 3 Flashcards
Christian place of worship
Church for worship
Tallest elaborate buildings are most often
Religious structures
Muslim building
Mosque
Considered as a space for community assembly
Hindu building
Temple
Shrines for gots rather than congregational worship
Worship happens at home
Buddhist and Shintoism buildings
Pagodas
Elaborate delicate
Holds relics of Buddha believed to be his clothing or pert of his body
Not designed for congregational worship
Bahai building
Houses of worship
Open to adherents of all religions
Christians, Muslims, and Jews bury their dead in
Cemeteries
Cemeteries problem
Space lost.
China is opposed to what burial practices
Bury if dead. They encourage cremation and plowing over cemeteries ,
Cremation
Burning bodies e
Cremation downside
Strains India’s wood supply and
Frees soul from body and provide warmth and comfort for journey to underworld
Utopian settlement
Ideal community built Around religious way of life
Toponyms s in new world
Roman Catholics frequently give places religious names
Quebec’s boundaries with Ontario and USA ilustrate the
Difference in Toponyms selected by Roman Catholic and Protestant settlers
Religious names are common in Quebec and not the other 2
Followers of a univeralixpzed religion must be
connected to ensure communication and consists of a doctrine
As of authorities ethnic religions tend not to have have
Organized, central authorities
Hierarchal religion
Has a well defined geographic structure and organizes territory into local administrative units
Roman Catholicism is a Hierarchal religion
Latter say saints
Mormons
Exercises strong organization of the landscape
Territory or Mormons- Utah is organized into wards pop of 750 each
Several wards=stake of 5,000 pop
Highest authority in church, board and president often redraws ward/stake boundaries to reflect ideal pop standards
Roman catabolism is a heiarxhal religion
Divides USA into provinces each headed by and archbishop and provinces are divided Into dioceses …
Pope
archbishops head of province report to pope
Bishop report to archbishop. Head of diocese
Priests report to bishop
Parish headed by preist
Autonomous religions
Self sufficient
and interaction among communities is confined to little more than loose cooperation and shared ideas
Islam and Protestant denominations
Of three Universalizing religions which is most local autonomy
Islam
Why is Islam autonomy
Neither a religious hierarchy nor a formal territorial organization
How is strong unity maintained in Islam
High degree of Communication ANd migration
Like the pilgrimage to Mecca
And the doctrine
Protestant denomination autonomous
Baptists, united church of Christ
Organized into self governing congregations and each congregation decides precise form of worship and selects leadership
