Universalizing Religions
Ethnic Religions
Miscellaneous 1
Miscellaneous 2
Miscellaneous 3
100
The three major universalizing religions
What is Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam?
100
The three major ethnic religions
What is Hinduism, Judaism, and Philosophies?
100
A movement in the 19th century for Jews to have a homeland
What is Zionism?
100
A religious ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order
What is ritual?
100
The fusion of Buddhism and a local religion in Japan
What is Shintoism?
200
The hearth of Buddhism
What is Indus River Valley / South Asia?
200
A Jew who is of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
What is Sephardic?
200
A _________ seeks to convert other people to a different faith
What is evangelical?
200
A secular state is the opposite of a ________
What is a theocracy?
200
A method of divination that interprets markings and various textures on the ground
What is Geomancy?
300
3 major branches of Christianity
What is Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox
300
belief in harmonizing your living space with life forces
What is Feng Shui?
300
A _______ believes that Ali is the successor to Mohammad, and rejects the first 3 caliphs as the successors
What is Shiite Muslim?
300
Conflict within one religion
What is intrafaith conflict?
300
A tower attached to a Muslim mosque, from which a crier calls Muslims to prayer
What is a Minaret?
400
Which is not a pillar of Islam: 1: Pilgrimage to Mecca 2: Follow Islamic dietary laws 3: Fasting 4: Pray daily 5: Care for the needy 6: Belief in one god
What is follow Islamic dietary laws
400
5 relationships of Confucianism
What is king to subject, father to son, husband to wife, older brother to younger brother, friend to friend?
400
The Buddhist path through which an individual achieves enlightenment and ending suffering
What is the eightfold path?
400
Buddhist place of worship
What is a stupa?
400
The system of Islamic law based the Qu'ran
What is Shari'a laws?
500
Responsible for the diffusion of Buddhism
What is Asoka?
500
The goal of this religion is to be reincarnated and find unity with Brahman
What is Hinduism?
500
Belief that lifeless objects such as hills, trees, rivers, and other elements of the natural landscape possess souls that can affect human efforts on earth
What is Animism?
500
Difference between ethnic religion and universalizing religion
An ethnic religion does not seek to convert people, and is culturally distinct. A universalizing religion does seek to convert people, supports the idea that there is one true religion, and tends to be more widely diffused
500
A Muslim that is accepted as a descendant of Muhammad through his grandsons
What is Sayyid?
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