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Cultural Patterns & Processes (Religion & Ethnicity)

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show belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events such as thunderstorms or earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.  
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Buddhism   show
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show Belief western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia and is important because it’s a big religious movement by a large number of people.  
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Christianity   show
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Confucianism   show
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show A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution. Principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular locations in which its followers are concentrated.Ex. Shinto, Judaism, Hinduism  
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Fundamentalism   show
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Geomancy (feng shui)   show
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show The fifth pillar of Islam. Pilgrimage to Mecca.  
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Hinduism   show
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show Boundaries between the world's major faiths, such as Christianity, Muslim, and Buddhism. Separates different groups of people for different reasons.  
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show The second largest religion in the world. Means the submission to the will of god. It originated with the teachings of Muhammad.  
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Jainism   show
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show Is the religion of the Hebrew people, based on principles and ethics embodied in their Bible. In 2007, this religious population was estimated at 13.2 million people with 41% if them living in Israel.  
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Landscapes of the Dead   show
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show In religion, a belief in one personal god. In practice, monotheistic religion tends to stress the existence of one personal god that controls the universe. The term is applied specifically to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as Zoroastrianism.  
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show Term used to describe the religious, ideological, and cultural elements of certain branches of the Latter Day Saint movement, specifically, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  
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show Also called "Hadj". This is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is the duty of each Muslim at least once in their life to make this religious journey to Mecca. To see the Kaba at al-Harim al-Sharif.  
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show -Distributed in Central Asia, Northern Africa and South East Asia -1,449,765,439 - 1,513,955,647 followers -Growing Population  
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Proselytic religion   show
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Reincarnation   show
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show The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Can be universalizing or ethnic in nature. A particular system of faith and worship.  
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Religious architectural styles   show
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Religious conflict   show
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show The point of origin. For example, Southern Saudi Arabia around Mecca for Islam, Jerusalem/Bethlehem for Christianity and Northeast India for Buddhism.  
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show Example would be the St.Peters Basilica or Pakistan. The study of places given names with religious significance.  
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Sacred space   show
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Secularism   show
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show Refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world.  
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show The legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles.  
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Shintoism   show
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Sikhism   show
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Sunni/Shia   show
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show Is often distinguished as separate ethnic religions in China. Many Chinese consider themselves both Buddhist and ______. Based on the mystical and magical aspects of life. Banned by communists in 1949.  
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show A form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler. Iran and the Vatican are both considered to have a this government.  
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show Attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one cultural or location. Ie: Christianity  
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Zoroastrianism   show
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6) Ethnicity   show
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show Process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviours of another group. ex. many indigenous people have lost their traditional culture (most evidently language) and replaced by that of the dominant new culture.  
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show Process of consistent integration whereby members of an ethno-cultural group (such as immigrants, or minority groups) are "absorbed" into an established, generally larger community. This presumes a loss of many characteristics of the absorbed group.  
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show Refers to lower-class neighborhoods. (equivalent of a "ghetto")  
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show the migration of people to a specific location, because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.  
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show the process of adapting to a cultural heritage, language or ethnicity. There are going to be challenges faced through the diversity and clashes of different cultures.  
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show a politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict. Cultural clashes. for example, Indonesia with a background of multicultural, ethnicities and religions.  
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show a term when ethnics groups forcibly remove another less powerful ethnic group to create an ethnically homogeneous region. This concept differs from wars where it was simply to defeat an enemy, while ethnic cleansing is to rid an entire ethnic. eg. Rwanda  
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6) Ethnic conflict   show
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6) Ethnic enclave   show
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6) Ethnic group   show
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6) Ethnic homeland   show
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show The landscape formed by the ethnicities living in that area i.e.)where chinese ethnic groups migrated - china town becomes part of landscape  
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show a neighborhood formed by the one group of ethnicity. i.e.)The neighborhood where African Americans live- the ghetto  
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6) Ethnicity   show
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show beliefs of an ethnic group that their ethnicity is better  
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6) Ghetto   show
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6) Plural society   show
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show identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor  
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6) Segregation   show
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show distance between different groups of society. It's opposed to locational difference. Social distance includes all the differences such as social class, ethnicity, race, or sexuality.  
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6) Dowry death   show
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show granting franchise to; admitting citizenship and giving right to vote.  
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show classification of sex  
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6) Infanticide   show
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6) Longevity gap   show
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show Annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births. Ex. The number of deaths per 100,000 women in the 15-49 age group, measure the impact of maternal deaths on the population of women as a whole.  
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show a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects. Religions are considered either universalizing or ethnic, depending on if they are global, or solely in a specific country or region.  
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show difference between economic opportunity of man and woman. Also could refer to cultural difference in their roles.  
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6) adaptive strategy   show
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show A country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country or wholly lying within the boundaries of another country. Examples are Republic of San Marino, Vatican City, Kingdom of Lethoso, Portugal, South Korea, Denmark  
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6) Exclave   show
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show Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there.  
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