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Religion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirt and conscious life |
| Atheisms | The belief that God does not exist |
| Congregation | A local assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship. |
| Caste System | The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law. |
| Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe |
| Ethnic religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristic of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. Does not seek out converts |
| Monotheism | The belief in and worship of only one God |
| Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes |
| Polytheism | Belief in or worship of more than one God |
| Syncretic | Combining several religious traditions |
| Universalizing religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location |
| Secularism | An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civic affairs and public education |
| Theocracies | Countries whose governments are run by religious leaders through the use of religious laws. |
| Cultural hearth | A center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward |
| Sequent occupance | The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape |
| Relocation diffusion | A spread of a cultural trait by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them to a new place. |
| Expansion Diffusion | Spread of cultural traits through direct or indirect exchange without migration is called expansion diffusion. 2 TYPES FOR THIS CLASS Contagious diffusion and Hierarchical diffusion |
| Contagious diffusion | occurs when a cultural trait spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people |
| Hierarchical diffusion | Spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and importance or powerful people. |
| Adherents | Believers of a religion |
| proselytizing | the action of attempting to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. |
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