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AP HG Ch 6 Vocab
ap hg ch 6 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. |
Autonomous religion | A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally. |
Branch (of a religion) | A large and fundamental division within a religion. |
Caste | The class of 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. |
Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. |
Diocese | The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church. |
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. |
Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect). |
Ghetto | During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. |
Hierarchical religion | A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control. |
Interfaith boundary | The boundaries between the world's major faiths. |
Intrafaith boundary | The boundaries within a major religion. |
Missionary | An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion. |
Monotheism | The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god. |
Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. |
Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes. |
Polytheism | Belief in or worship of more than one god. |
Religion | The service and worship of God or the supernatural. |
Sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
Secularism | A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. |
Shamanism | Form of a tribal religion that involved community acceptance of a shaman, a religious leader, healer, and worker of magic who, through special powers, can intercede with and interpret the spirit world. |
Solstice | Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator. |
Syncretism | The blending traits from two different cultures to form a new trait. |
Traditional/tribal religion | Special forms of ethnic religions distinguished by their small size, their unique identity with localized culture groups not yet fully absorbed into modern society, and their close ties to nature. |
Universalizing religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. |
Zionism | A worldwide movement, originating in the 19th century that sought to establish and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine. Since 1948, its function has been to support the state of Israel. |