Universal
The largest world religion (over 2 billion adherents)
Christianity
The world's largest ethnic religion.
Hinduism
Why are there not benches or chairs to make praying more comfortable in a Mosque, as there are in churches?
Prayer is done on one's knees in Islam
Name the three main branches of Christianity
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy
Name the three Abrahamic religions; these religions all trace back their roots to Abraham.
Christianity, Judaism, Islam
Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years?
Islam
Inanimate objects and natural events contain spirits or deities in this type of ethnic religion.
Animism
This large religion favors cremation of the dead instead of burial.
Hinduism
Name the two main sects of Islam
Shiites (Shias) and Sunnis
Name the holiest book in Islam
Centered mostly in China and Southeast Asia, this religion is different from other universalizing religions because it has stayed tied to the region in which it was founded.
Buddhism
Name two popular Asian ethnic religions other than Hinduism. (Hint: don't choose Sikhism, which is technically a universalizing religion.)
Daoism, Confucianism, Shintoism
Hindus worship in temples, but even more commonly in their own ...
homes.
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians are examples of Christian _________s.
denominations
Which groups are in religious conflict in Northern Ireland? Bonus for an extra $100: which group is associated with the UK?
Protestants and Catholics. Protestants are associated with the UK.
The focus of most calendars in universalizing religions.
Life events of its founder.
Name of the oppressive social system embraced in India under Hinduism.
Caste system
A common feature in cities located in French-influenced Quebec that sets them apart from most cities nearby is the use of...
religious (Catholic) toponyms
Name a branch of Buddhism
Mahayana, Theravada, Vajrayana
Where was Buddha born? (name of city - correctly spelled or pronounced)
Lumbini
Members of this religion tended to migrate to the northwest or to the east from central India when Britain split the region in 1947.
Muslims, as the new nations of West Pakistan and East Pakistan were created. (Today W. Pakistan is simply Pakistan; E. Pakistan is now Bangladesh)
Judaism's rituals are centered on the agricultural cycle of the region known as Israel, rather than on the life events of any person. For this reason, it is classified as a/an ____________________ religion.
ethnic religion
Buddhists and Shintoists worship in temples but also in religious structures known as...
Pagodas
Name the religious sect dominant in Iran.
Shiite (Shia)
Name the holiest book in Judaism
The Torah