Vocabulary
Vocab 2
Diffusion
Rituals
Division of Faith
Conflicts
100

Belief in one God

What is Monotheism?

100

Belief in more than one god

What is polytheism?

100
This religion diffused at a faster rate due to the Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion to it.
What is Christianity
100
Founder of Buddhism
What is Siddhartha Gautama
100
A large and fundamental division within a religion
What is branch
100

The conflict in Israel is best described as what type of conflict?

Interfaith

200
A religion particular to a distinct culture group which does not seek converts
What is ethnic religion
200

The rebirth of consciousness into a new form

What is reincarnation?

200
This religion diffused along trade routes and into China, first going northeast, and then south into Vietnam and other Southeast Asian regions.
What is Buddhism
200

Chinese tradition and African tradition often represent this type of religion

What is folk

200
The schism out of Germany occurred between adherents of Catholicism and this new growing religion branch
What is Protestantism
200

The Crusades were a religious conflict between which two groups of people over the Holy Land?

Muslims and Christians

300

Belief that your actions, good and bad, will impact your next life

What is karma?

300

This type of religious belief, common in more tribal religions, attributes spirits or souls to animals and even non-living objects.

What is animism?

300
Hinduism in the New World is this type of diffusion

Relocation Diffusion

300
Followers of a faith that use strict and literal translations of their religious principles/texts are often know as this.
What are fundamentalists
300
This is the more dominant branch of Islam.
What is Sunni
300

The Troubles refers to an intrafaith conflict in Northern Ireland between which two groups?

Catholics & Protestants

400

Type of religious building in Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism

What is a temple?

400

Type of religious building for worship in Islam

What is a Mosque?

400
The original worldwide diffusion of Christianity took place during this particular era.
What is colonialism
400

the religious rite of sprinkling water onto a person's forehead or of immersion in water, symbolizing purification or regeneration and admission to the Christian Church.

What is Baptism?

400
When a religion combines multiple traditions, it becomes known as ________________
What is Synchronizsm
400

The conflict between Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims is over what?

Who is the rightful leader of Islam? By blood or capability.
500

Type of religion that does not focus itself or acknowledge the idea of Gods

What is nontheistic?

500

An individual who self-describes as "unaffiliated" with religion is often referred by this term

What is atheist or agnostic?

500

Many ethnic religions typically stay near their hearth, however this one is an exception due to the diaspora that has occurred in its past. It was located in Eastern Europe before persecution forced migration towards Germany. Persecution in Germany led to the founding of it's own nation state.

What is Judaism

500

What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?

1. Submission to God 

2. Pilgrimage to Mecca

3. Fasting (Ramadan)

4. Giving to Charity (Alms)

5. Prayer 5 times a Day

500

Smallest split of a religion. Example for Christianity: Methodist, Southern Baptist, Presbyterian

What are denominations?

500

The Great Schism resulted in the creation of which two branches of Christianity?

Catholicism and Orthodoxy

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