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39 Cards in this Set
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Activity Spaces |
daily activity places |
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Interface Areas |
where different religious neighborhoods meet and violence usually occurs |
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Religion |
a system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities |
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Secularism |
the indifference to or rejection of formal religion |
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Monotheistic |
worship of a single deity, a God |
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Polytheistic |
worship of more than one deity |
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Animistic |
centered on the belief that inanimate objects, such as mountains, boulders, rivers, and trees, possess spirits and therefore should be revered |
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Universalizing Religions |
actively seek converts because they view themselves as offering belief systems of universal appropriateness and appeal |
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Ethnic Religion |
adherents are born into the faith and converts are not actively sought |
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Hinduism |
3rd in the world |
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Caste System |
locks people into particular social classes and imposes many restrictions, especially in the lowest of the castes and in those considered beneath the caste system, Dalits |
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Syncretic |
compromise religion |
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Buddhism |
splintered from Hinduism over 2500 years ago |
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Shintoism |
Buddhism mixed with a local religion in Japan |
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Taoism |
beginnings unclear, traced the religion to an older contemporary of Confucius, Lao-Tsu |
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Feng Shui |
the art and science of organizing living spaces in order to channel the life forces that exist in nature in favorable ways |
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Confucianism |
mainly a philosophy of life, and like Taoism, it had great and lasting impacts on Chinese life |
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Judaism |
grew out of the belief system of the Jews, one of several nomadic Semitic tribes living in Southwest Asia about 4000 years ago |
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Diaspora |
spatial dispersion of members of any ethnic group |
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Zionism |
the idea of a homeland for the Jewish people |
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Christianity |
traced back to the same hearth in the Mediterranean as Judaism |
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Eastern Orthodox Church |
first split in Christianity |
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Roman Catholic Church |
claims the most adherents of all Christian denominations |
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Protestantism |
began in several parts of western Europe and expanded to some degree through contagious diffusion |
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Islam |
the youngest major religion, traced back to Muhammad |
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Sunni Muslims |
great majority |
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Shi'ite Muslims |
concentrated in Iran |
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Indigenous Religions |
local in scope, usually have reverence for nature, and are passed down through family units and groups |
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Shamanism |
a community faith in which people follow their shaman-a religious leader, teacher, healer, and visionary |
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Secularism |
indifference to or rejection of organized religious affiliations and ideas |
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Pilgrimage |
when adherents voluntarily travel to a religious site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site |
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Sacred Sites |
places or spaces people infuse with religious meaning |
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Minarets |
part of mosques that rise above the townscape |
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Hajj |
Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca |
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Interfaith Boundaries |
the boundaries between the world's major faiths |
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Intrafaith Boundaries |
the boundaries within a single major faith |
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Religious Fundamentalism |
born out of frustration over the perceived breakdown of society;s morals and values, lack of religious authority, failure to achieve economic goals, loss of a sense of local control, failure of a government to protect a religion, or a sense of violation of a religion's core territory |
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Religious Extermism |
fundamentalism carried to the point of violence |
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Jihad |
Islamic holy war |