Unit 6 Religion - Vocabulary Flashcards
Animism
Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life
Branch
A large and fundamental division within a religion
Cosmogony
A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
Denomination
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body
Diocese
The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church; a district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church.
Ethnic religion
A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which it’s adherents are concentrated
Fundamentalism
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect)
Ghetto
During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of minority’s group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
Hierarchical religion
A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
Inhumation
The action or practice of burying the dead; the fact of being buried.
Interfaith boundary
The boundaries between the world’s major religions
Intrafaith boundary
The boundaries dividing denominations within the same faith
Monotheism
The doctrine of or belief in the existence of only one god
Hadj
The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime
Pilgrimage
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
