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Chapter Eleven p155
Religious Origins and Distributions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animism | the belief that inanimate objects possess souls and can help as well as hinder human efforts on Earth. |
| Buddhism | stemmed from Hinduism-Buddah was the first Indian leader to speak against Hinduism. Salvation can be attained by anyone no matter what the caste. |
| Chinese Religions | Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese Buddhism |
| Christianity | Contains Roman Catholic (largest) and Protestant churches |
| Confucianism | A philosophy of ethic, education, and public service basedon the writing of Confucius and traditionally thouight of as one of the core elements of Chinese culture |
| Ethic Religion | A religion that is particular to one, culturally distinct, group of people. They do not actively seek converts. examle-Judiasm |
| Hinduism | Not centrally organized, no branches, no holy book, world's oldest organized religion,ethic religion and concentrated in India |
| Islam | fastest growning major religion-youngest of the major religions-arose out of the teachings of Muhammad-the truth comes from Allah-Koran is the holy book. |
| Judaism | One of the most influential religions. Three branches-Orthodoz, conservative,and Reform. Came from a nomadic Semitic tribe and the teachings of Abraham. |
| Monotheistic religion | belief system in whichone supreme being is revered as creator and arbiter of all that exists in the universe. |
| Nation of Islam | movement born in the 1930's that reflected the desire of American blacks to be fred from the white oppression. They believed themselves to be members of the lost Islamic tribe-Black Muslims. |
| polytheistic religion | belief system in which multiple deities are revered as creators and arbiters of all that exists in the universe |
| secularism | indifference to or rejections of organized religious affiliations and ideas in the modern world |
| Shamanism | community of faith in which people follow their shaman, a religious leader, teacher, healer, teacher and visionary. |
| Shintoism | related to Buddhism-focus on nature and ancestor worship once was the state religion of Japan. |
| Sikhism | a "fusion" religion-has elements of Hinduism and Islam |
| syncretic religion | elements from different cultural sources are combined in distinctive ways . example Norse elements in Christianity. |
| Taoism | A Chinese religion in which human happiness is maintaining the proper relationship with natrue |
| traditional religion | a religion that is an intimate part of a local culture and society. Usually not changed and had continued to be the same throughout history. |
| universalizing religion | A belief system that espouses the idea thaqt there is one true religion. Those people believing their religion is universal spend a lot of time spreading their "word". |
| Zoroastianism | this monotheistic religion develped about the first millennium BC in SW asia. |
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