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WorldGeoCh6
Religion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is religion to most people? | Celebration of key values and beliefs |
| Why is religion a particularly good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity? | Religion represents core cultural value and beliefs that may conflict with others |
| What is the predominant religion in Latin America? | Catholicism |
| What is an ethnic religion? | Appeals to one group of people in one place |
| What is a universalizing religion? | Appeals to almost everyone |
| What is the world's largest universalizing religion? | Christianity |
| Which characteristic distinguishes religion and Latin America from North America? | Most of the Latin America population is Roman Catholic |
| What is the world's largest ethnic religion? | Hinduism |
| Three examples of non-universalizing religions | Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism |
| In what part of the world are Muslims clustered? | Northern Africa and southwestern Asia |
| How much of the world's population do adherents of the three major universalizing religions represent? | More than half of the global population but less than 2/3 |
| Describe how tensions and conflicts may arise when universalizing and ethnic religions are in one geographic space. | Clash between cultural values and beliefs that lead to conflict |
| Where are Buddhism's 400 million adherents clustered? | China and Southeast Asia |
| Which religious branch has a single living authority who speaks for the entire branch? | Roman Catholicism (the Pope) |
| Lutheranism is a Christian example of what? | A denomination (of Protestant) |
| What is the largest branch of Islam in Iran? | Shiite |
| What are the branches of Christianity? | Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic |
| What do you call a relatively small group that has broken away from an established church? | A sect |
| How did the division of Islam into branches result? | A disagreement over which of Muhammad's relatives should succeed him |
| What is a large and fundamental division within a religion? | A branch |
| List the religions not considered Christian | Hinduism, Sikhism, Baha'i, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism |
| What are the order of divisions of a universalizing religion? | Branch, Denomination, Sect |
| What do Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasize about Buddha? | He was compassionate, kinder and less threatening. |
| What is Eastern Orthodoxy a Christian example of? | A branch |
| Almost 90% of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to what religion? | Christianity |
| Baptist are clustered where in the United States? | Southeast |
| Lutherans are clustered where in the United States? | Upper Midwest |
| Where does Islam have the most adherents? | Indonesia |
| Which are the countries that have 80% or above of a Christian population? | Mexico, Chile and Italy |
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