Sects and the City
The predominant Christian denominations in the American South
What are Baptism and Methodism?
The largest universalizing religion
What is Christianity?
The two main terms used to describe how many deities a religion worships
What are polytheism and monotheism?
The hearth of Hinduism and the various movements based around its teachings
What is India?
The "youngest" religion overall (by median age of followers)
What is Islam?
The Christian denomination which is dominant in Northern Europe and most of the United States, split off from the Catholic Church in protest of certain unethical doctrines
What is Protestantism?
The second-largest ethnic religion, widespread across the world due to its significant diaspora
What is Judaism?
A literal interpretation of a religion's teachings
What is fundamentalism?
The hearth of Islam
What is Arabia?
The continent which most Buddhists live on
What is Asia?
Sunni and Shi'a
What are the two main Islamic sects?
The largest ethnic religion
What is Hinduism?
The two categories which religions can be divided into based on whether they seek converts or remain tied to a single group of people
What are ethnic and universalizing religions?
The hearth from which Judaism and Christianity spread
What is Israel?
These are the three largest denominations within the whole of Christianity, in order
What are Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy?
The main area in the United States where Lutherans are the dominant religion
Where is Minnesota?
The belief that inanimate objects, associated with ethnic religions
What is animism?
The term used for when a religion divides into separate groups over conflict
What is a schism?
The places to which Islam spread from its hearth in Arabia
What are Africa and the Middle East?
The part of Africa where Christianity is dominant
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
What are Shi'ites?
The primary religion of Japan, belief in spirits known as "kami"
What is Shinto?
The separation of church and state
What is secularism?
The sacred river which Hindus bathe in and the holy city which Muslims take their hajj pilgrimage to, respectively
What are the Ganges and Mecca?
The groups with the highest tendencies to live as minorities worldwide
Who are folk religionists?