| Question |
Answer |
| Animism: |
The belief that natural objects have souls that may exist apart from their material bodies. |
| Buddhism: |
A religion that spread from India to China that is based on the teachings of Buddha. |
| Cargo Cult Pilgrimage: |
The journey to a shrine of an aboriginal religion that exists in the South Pacific. |
| Christianity: |
A monotheist system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior. |
| Confucianism: |
A philosophy of life created by Confucius that stresses the importance of the proper relationships in a society, such as father/son and subject/ruler. |
| 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 its adherents are concentrated. |
| Exclave: |
A person of a country geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory. |
| Enclave: |
A country or an outlying portion of a country, entirely or mostly surrounded by the territory of another country. |
| Fundamentalism: |
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion or a religious branch, denomination, or sect. |
| Geomancy(Feng Shui): |
A widespread system of divination either by means of designs drawn randomly on the ground with sand, pollen, or other similar powders or by detecting, through calculations and signs, the hidden forces present in the landscape. |
| Mormonism: |
A religion, ideology, movement, and subculture originating in the early 1800’s as a product of the Latter Day Saint movement. The term Mormonism is also often used to refer specifically to the theology and culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d |
| Muslim Pilgrimage: |
One of a Muslim’s duties, as described in the Five Pillars of Islam, is to go on Hajj at least once during his or her lifetime. This is a pilgrimage to Makkah(Mecca) in Saudi Arabia. Followers of Islam who cannot go on a Hajj because of ill health or lack |
| Muslim Population: |
Total Muslim Population in 2006 is 1.6 billion. |
| Proselytism Religion: |
A religion where the believers attempt to convert others. (Christianity, Mormonism, Muslim). |
| Reincarnation: |
The idea that our soul lives multiple lifetimes, gaining experience through them. |
| Religion: |
Sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system-is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices and institutions associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined i |
| Religious Architectural Styles: |
Have to do with the basis of belief, the founding region, and the religion’s symbols. |
| Religious Conflict: |
An open clash between two opposing groups(or individuals) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church. |
| Religious Culture Hearth: |
The area from which the religious culture of a group diffused and the religious or sacred practices of a group of people spread to the regions around them. |
| Religious Toponym: |
A name derived from a place or geographic feature that has to do with sacred matters or religion or the church. |
| Sacred Place: |
Place of worship defined by the circle, wherever and whenever you may need it. |
| Secularism: |
The promotion of secular policies like the separation of church and state. Not to be confused with Secularization, which aims to be a purely objective and value-free theory of in the sociology of the religion. The USA is a secular state because the Consti |
| Shamanism: |
The religion of many of the ancient less-developed civilizations of the world. Some societies today are shamanistic. Shamanism is characterized by the ability of the Shaman to communicate with the spirit world to provide healing, guidance or wisdom. The s |
| Sharia Law: |
Sharia is traditional Islamic law also known as Allah’s Law. Like most religious cultures, Islam classically drew no distinction between religious and secular life. Hence Sharia covers not only religious rituals, but many aspects of day-to-day life. Howev |
| Shintoism: |
The indigenous polytheistic religion of Japan lacking organized teachings; primarily nature and ancestor worship including a chief deity from whom the emperor is believed to be descended. |
| Sikhism: |
A monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by the guru Nanak. Sikhism rejects caste distinctions, idolatry, and asceticism and is characterized by belief in a cycle of reincarnation from which humans can free themselves by livin |
| Sunni: |
The branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors of Muhammad. |
| Shia: |
A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali and his descendants as the legitimate successors to Muhammad and ejects the first three caliphs. |
| Taoism: |
Philosophical system developed by Lao-Tzu and Chuang-Tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events. |
| Theocracy: |
A political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided). |
| Universalizing: |
To make something universal, to bring something into universal use. |
| Zoroastrianism: |
The religious system founded by Zoroaster and set forth in the Avesta, teaching the worship of Ahura Mazda in the context of a universal struggle between the forces of light and darkness. |
| Hadj: |
A pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca as a religious duty in the Muslim faith. |
| Hinduism: |
A religion mainly practiced in India. Hindus believe that there is no right way to worship god and so all Hindus worship god differently. |
| Interfaith: |
Boundaries where two religions come together. |
| Islam: |
The predominant religion in the Middle East. Islam means ‘submission to the will of god’ in Arabic. |
| Jainism: |
A religion of India originating in the 6th century BC and teaching lemeration of the soul by right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. |
| Judaism: |
The practice of the Jewish religion. Was the first religion to practice monotheism and the religion from which Islam and Christianity are derived from. |
| Landscapes of the Dead: |
Landscapes changed by the way people dispose of their dead. |
| Monotheism: |
Belief that there is only one god (such as in Christianity). |
| Polytheism: |
Worshipping many gods (such as Pagan religions). |
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