Religion Flashcards
Religion
A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities.
Secularism
Is the indifference to or rejection of religion, Europe and the US
Animistic Religion
Inanimate objects possess spirits.
Universalizing Religion
Actively seeks converts, they have a message that applies to all people.
Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
Ethnic Religion
People born into it, Faith/culture intertwined, spatially concentrated.
Judaism and Hinduism
Hinduism
Originated in India (South Asia), Indus River Valley, oldest religion, caste system, temples (engravings /sculptures of gods), Ganges River, relocation diffusion.
Caste System
It is a social hierarchy passed down through families.
Syncretic (know Sikhism)
Ethnic religion, spatially located, mix of hinduism and Islam.
Buddhism
Founded by Siddharta Guatama, originated in Bodh Gaya (India), the sacred sight is the bodhi tree, diffuses through trade and relocation diffusion. (Spread to Southeast Asia, China, Japan), PAGODAS.
Shintoism
Mixing of Buddhism and local religion in Japan, focused on nature and ancestor worship.
Taoism
Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao, or the universe.
Confucianism
An ancient Chinese belief system, which focuses on the importance of personal ethics and morality.
Judaism
The hearth of Judaism is judea, Spread through relocation, Spatially concentrated, Northeast, Eastern Europe and Israel,
Diaspora
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.
Zionism
Another word for Israel/homeland for Jewish people
Interfaith Conflict
Boundaries between the world’s major faiths, 2 different religions (Ex: Israel/Palestine).
Intrafaith Conflict
Boundaries within a single major faith, Same faith (Ex: Catholic v Northern Ireland)
Christianity
Christians in the US are in the North East, it’s a universalizing religion, the hearth of Christianity is Judea.
Eastern Orthodox Church
The second-largest Christian church, with approximately 220 million baptized members.
Roman Catholic Church
Is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2019.
Protestant
A member or follower of any of the Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church and follow the principles of the Reformation, including the Baptist, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches.
Islam
Mainly in the Middle East and North Africa, the landscape includes geometric patterns, no people, calligraphy and minarets, the hearth of Islam is Judea
Sunni
The larger of the two main branches of Islam, which differs from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna, its conception of religious leadership, and its acceptance of the first three caliphs.
Shi’ite
An adherent of the Shia branch of Islam.
Shamnaism
Community faith, follow the practices and teachings of the shaman.
Pilgrimage
The movement of the traveler or group of travelers away from home, usually with a specific, sacred goal in mind.
Sacred Sites
Holy place where people visit on pilgrimage to pay respects, pray, or pay the religions meaning infused with the sites.
Minerets
Balconied tower of a mosque that rises above townscapes where five times a day the faithful are called to prayer.
Hajj
Pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia – where faithful circle the holy Kaaba in the Grand Mosque.
Religious Fundamentalism
Beliefs are non-negotiable and uncompromising, Strict religions.
Religious Extremism
Fundamentalism carried to the point of violence.
Jihad
A struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam.
Where did Hinduism originate?
India (South Asia)
Where did Buddhism originate?
India
FRQ: Why would people Pilgrim to a place?
To pray and visit sacred sites.
FRQ: What does Pilgrimage do for a place?
Brings in money and funds the place through tourism.
Relocation Diffusion
He took the religion with him and left India.
How do religions contribute to diversity?
Different sacred sights, symbols or toponyms.
Israel vs Palestine
Land has religious meaning to both groups.
Where are Lutherans in the US?
The Midwest
Where are Mormons in the US?
Utah
Which Religion has Pagodas?
Buddhism
Largest group of Christians:
Roman Catholics
FRQ: Why would someone go to the Dome of the Rock?
Muhammed died there, sacred site, His soul ascended.
FRQ: Why would someone go to Bodh Gaya?
The Buddha is there!