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Vocabulary
6.1: Where Are Religions Distributed?
6.2: Why Do Religions Have Distinctive Distributions?
100

The belief that God does not exist.

Atheism

100

What is the most common religion worldwide

Christian

100

Who is credited with founding Christianity?

Jesus

200

A large and fundamental division within a religion.

Branch

200

What rough percentage of the world practice one of the four largest religions?

78%, 75%, 3/4

200

Who is known to have started the protestant branch?

Martin Luther

300

An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion. 

Missionary

300

Atheism and agnosticism are ____ in religion

Unaffiliated

400

A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.

Hierarchical religion

400
Chinese traditional, primal-indigenous, and African traditional are ____ religions

Folk religions

500

An astronomical event that happens twice each year, when the tilt of Earth's axis is most inclined toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun's apparent position in the sky to reach its northernmost or southernmost extreme, and resulting in the shortest and longest days of the year.

Solstice

500

The four largest religions

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism