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religion (chapter 6)

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Name the universalizing religions   Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, baha'i  
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Name the most popular ethnic religions   hindusm, judaism, daoism, shintoism, confucianism  
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Define: universalizing religion   attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, they often celebrate the life of one person and do not form to only one culture or location  
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Define: ethnic religion   appeals to one group of people in one location  
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Define: Branch   large and fundamental division within a religion ( example: roman catholic)  
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Define: Denomination   a division of a branch that unites a number of local congragations (example: the church of latter-day saint)  
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Define: monotheism   belief in 1 god  
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Define: polytheism   belief in many gods  
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Define: Animism   gives inanimate objects spirts and conscious life  
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Define: Pagan   follower of a polytheistic religion  
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How did christanity diffused?   relocation diffusion: missionaries & migration  
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How did islam diffused?   Relocation diffusin: trading & war & migration  
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How did buddhism diffused?   Heierarchical diffusion: the buddist leader of the Magadhan Empire, then through relocation diffusion: Missonaries & trade  
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why has Judaism diffused?   the jews have long been persecuted and forced to move through out the world ( relocation) but witht eh creatation of isral most jews live in that central location  
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differnce in between holy places for univ. and ethnic religions   univ: focus on the places that were important in the fonders life Ethnic: phycical holy places  
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Define: cosmogony   a set of religious bliefs concerning the origin of the universe  
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Define: fundamentalism   literal interpretation and a strict intense adherence to basic principles of a religion  
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Example: Religion vs. social change   Hinduism vs. Social equality: the ridged caste system has been relaxed and offically abolished and people in India are equal  
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Example: Religion vs. Communism   Buddhism vs. Southeast Asian Countries: after/durning the vietnam war, many buddist shrines were destroyed in the bombing and the communist govn't has discouraged religious activites  
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Example: Religion vs. Religion   Jews vs. Muslims (in palestine): b/c the british drew the boundires for israel without thinking about the muslims already on the land war and broken out between the 2 religions. despues over land (expecially Jerusalem) has made the are unsafe  
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Describe: christians vs. Muslims in Lebanon   60% muslim, 30% christian 10% other--christians had a majority of the govn't and controlled the countires main businesses but the muslims becaem the largest ethnic group they demanded equality. civil war broke out in 1975, no peace so syria took control  
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describe: religious wars in Ireland   protestant north = United kingdom, the roman catholic = republic of ireland, the few R.C. in the north are discriminated aganist and the IRA (R.C. army) is devoted to uniting the irish no matter what the cost, these extreamist hurt the future of ireland  
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