Concepts
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is a syncretism?
This is the Process of adopting only certain customs that will be to their advantage
What is acculturation?
The third largest religion that is associated with the caste system.
What is Hinduism?
These religions are universalizing religions.
What are Christianity and Islam?
The process by which a specific trait or idea is spread from one culture or society to another, but is modified or adapted in the process.
What is Stimulus Diffusion?
These are historical causes of diffusion.
What are Colonialism, trade and imperialism?
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
These are the three Abrahamic religions
What is Islam, Christianity, and Judaism?
This religion spread through relocation, conquest and trade in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Asia Minor.
What is Islam?
How news and ideas and products can diffuse through social media influencers. For example, games like Fortnite, Among Us, Fall Guys, Apex, or Warzone became popular after major social media influencers started playing them.
What is a Hierarchical Diffusion?
Religions can be broken into these two types based on their growth model.
What are universalizing and ethnic?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
This religion believes in the full enlightenment and began in present day Nepal.
What is Buddhism?
This means belief in more than one God
What is polytheism?
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
Ones belief that their culture is superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
This religion was founded in the Punjab region of India in the 15th Century AD
What is Sikhism?
This is the largest religion and was diffused through missionaries, colonialism, and conquest
What is Christianity?
These three types of Diffussion are considered Expansion Diffussion are
What is Contagious, Stimulus, and Hierarchical (Reverse)?
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is a cultural landscape?
The regional variations of a language.
What is a dialect?
This is religion with a rather concentrated distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location where its adherents are located
What is an ethnic religion?
These religions are monotheistic.
What is Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, and Christianity
This type of diffusion occurs when it occurs through person-to-person contact such as a viral meme or video through social media or Covid-19. Some Universalizing religions spread in this manner as well
What is contagious diffusion?