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BB vocab chp 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| religion | a system of beliefs and practices that attempsto order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities |
| secularism | the idea that ethnical and moral standards should be ahered to for life on Earth not to accommodate promises for a comfortable after life |
| Feng Shui | the chinese art of placing and orientation of tombs,dwellings,buildings,and cities |
| Zionism | to unite jews from the dispora and make a national homeland for them |
| shitte | small islamic group or religion found in iran |
| Minaret | tower attached to a muslim mosque that calls for prayer |
| Interfaith boundries | boundries between worlds major religions |
| Genocide | the killing of an entire group or nation |
| religious extremism | carried to the point of violence |
| Jihad | a holy war representing a personal or collective struggle |
| Sharias laws | the system of islamic laws |
| Diaspora | describing forcefulor voluntary dispersal of a group from there homeland |
| Sunni | biggest group or religion of Islam |
| shamanism | community faith intraditonal societes in which they follow there religious leader |
| Hjj | a muslim pilgriamge to Makkah |
| Intrafaith Boundries | within a single religion |
| religious fundamentalism | a religious movement whose plan is to return to the basic of the religion |