Religion

Basic Ideas

100

This type of religion attempts to be global by appealing to all people regardless of location or culture.

What is a universalizing religion?

200

This type of religion appeals primarily to one group of people living in one place.

What is an ethnic religion?

300

This is a large and fundamental division within a religion.

What is a branch?

400

This is a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.

What is a denomination?

500

This is a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.

What is a sect?

Christianity

100

This is ONE of three major branches of Christianity.

What is Roman Catholic, Protestant, or Orthodox?

200

In Latin America, 93 percent of Christians belong to this major branch.

What is Roman Catholic?

300

This is the largest Protestant denomination of Christianity in the United States, with 37 million adherents.

What is Baptist?

400

This is about how many Christians there are in the world.

What is 2 billion?

500

This branch of Christianity has 11% of the world's Christians and is located mostly in eastern and southeastern Europe.

What is Orthodox Christianity?

Islam

100

This is the founder of Islam.

Who is Muhammed?

200

These are the two major branches of Islam.

What are Sunni and Shiite?

300

Islam first took hold in this city.

What is Mecca (Makkah)?

400

This branch of Islam is followed by about 16% of Muslims and is concentrated in Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Oman, and Bahrain.

What is shiite?

500

This is about how many Muslims there are in the world.

What is 1.5 billion?

Ethnic Religions

100

This is the largest ethnic religion in the world, with 900 million adherents.

What is Hinduism?

200

This is an ethnic religion whose followers believe that inanimate objects or natural events, such as natural disasters, have spirits and conscious life.

What is animism?

300

This is the first recorded religion to espouse monotheism, the belief that there is only one God, where Christianity and Islam can trace their roots from.

What is Judaism?

400

ONE of these religions is in a combination of three religions practiced in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

What is Buddhism, Confucianism, or Taoism?

500

This is the blending or combining of several traditions.

What is syncretism?

Sacred Spaces

100

These are sacred structures that physically anchor religion to landscape.

What are places of worship?

200

This has a more significant role in Christianity than in other religions because of the belief that this building is the house of God.

What is a church?

300

This sacred space is for community assembly, it's not viewed as a sanctified place, special attention is given to the direction of Mecca, and they have minarets, which are towers where a man known as a muezzin summons people to worship.

What is a mosque?

400

This sacred space is a prominent and ornate element on a landscape that often includes tall, many-sided towers arranged in a series of tiers, balconies, and slanting roofs, contains relics believed to be a portion of the enlightened one's body or clothing, and is not designed for congregational worship.

What is a (Buddhist) pagoda?

500

These are special journeys for religious purposes, with emphasis on identifying shrines that mark locations of important events in the life of holy people and places.

What is a pilgrimage?