Vocabulary
Belief system that promotes one truth and seeks to teach this truth around the world to anyone who will listen?
What is a universalizing religion?
This religion diffused at a faster rate due to the Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion to it
What is Christianity?
Founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
A large and fundamental division within a religion
What is a branch?
In the US, Baptists are regionally dominant in the
What is Southeast?
A religion particular to a distinct culture group which does not seek converts
What is ethnic religion?
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?
This ethnic religion practices cremation rather than burial. The body is washed with water from the Ganges River and then burned.
What is Hinduism?
A local assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship
What is a congregation?
Jerusalem is considered a sacred city for these three religions
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
combining several religious traditions
What is Syncretic or Syncretism?
The most prevalent faith of North Africa and Southwestern Asia
What is Islam?
Followers of a faith that use strict and literal translations of their religious principles/texts are often known as this.
What are fundamentalists?
This is the more dominant branch of Islam
What is Sunni?
Christianity first diffused from its hearth through this type of diffusion
What is relocation?
A belief or worship of more than one God
What is Polytheism?
About 80% of the world's Jewish population is located in these two countries
What is the United States and Israel?
Shrines and water are considered sacred sites for pilgrimages and ritual bathings for this faith.
What is Hinduism
These are the 3 largest branches of Christianity
What is Roman Catholicism, Orthodox, and Protestant?
Everyday worship in this religion is most likely to take place in the home
What is Hinduism?
The belief that God does not exist
What is Atheism?
Many ethnic religions typically stay near their hearth, however this one is an exception due to the diaspora that has occurred in its past
What is Judaism?
Every healthy Muslim who has adequate financial resources is expected to undertake a pilgrimage, called this
What is a Hajj?
Name two of the three branches of Buddhism
What is Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana?
This religion is predominant in the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota
What is Lutheran?