Chapter 6
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49 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 the Six-Day war in 1967 | Israel has controlled all of Jerusalem since... |
| Jewish citizens of Israel | Palestinians include all but which group? |
| Islam | Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years? |
| Christianity | The world's largest universalizing religion is... |
| inanimate objects and natural events have spirits | Animists believe that... |
| monotheism | The belief in the exsistance of only one god is... |
| denomination | Lutheran, Baptist, and Methodist are examples of a Christian... |
| True | Judaism is not a universalizing religion. True/False |
| Islam | Which is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who founded it? |
| univesalizing | The agricultural calendar is relatively unimportant to which type of religions? |
| at home | Worshiping in Hinduism is most likely to take place... |
| 2 | Christianity has ___ billion adherents. |
| sending missionaries out to spread the religion | Religion is not reflected in geography through... |
| the Middle East | Muslims are clustered in... |
| cosmogony | Beleifs concerning the origin of the universe are... |
| Hinduism | The world's largest ethnic religion is... |
| Shiite | The dominant branch of Islam in Iran is... |
| it was started by one man | Buddhism is not different from Christianity in which way? |
| how they see the origin of god | The cosmogony of ethnic and universalizing religions do not vary in which way? |
| Mahayana | Followers of which religious branch do not trace their origin to Abraham? |
| it has a hierarchical structure | Hinduism is not different from the univesalizing religions in which way? |
| Chiurches remained open but played a limited role | From the Russian Revolution to the fall of the communist government, what was the policy of the government towards religion? |
| sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a... |
| Hinduism | Cremation is more important than burial in which religion? |
| reflect on the balance of life | Especially important in Daoism is to... |
| 1.3 | Islam has ___ billion adherents. |
| Christianity | Which religion did not diffuse via trade networks? |
| branch | A large and fundemental division within a religion is a... |
| is not a sanctified place | A mosque differs from a church, because a mosque... |
| relocation diffusion | Christianity first diffused from its hearth through... |
| they believe that Mohammed is the last prophet | Islam is not similar to Christianity in which way? |
| It encourages each congregation to be self-sufficient | What is not a characteristic of a hierarchical religion? |
| Shintoism | What is not an ethnic Asian religion? |
| Sunni | The dominant branch of Islam is.. |
| branch | Eatern orthodoxy is an example of a Christian... |
| its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle in Israel | Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion, primarily because.. |
| appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations | A universalizing religion... |
| Buddhism | Adherents of which religion are also likely to believe in other religions simultaneously? |
| compassion and teaching | Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasize Buddha's... |
| False | The Ganges is the most holy river for Muslims. True/False |
| True | Individual ethnic religions have more concentrated grographic distributions than universalizing religions. True/False |
| True | Eastern religions do not have congregational worship. True/False |
| False | Buddhism is the most important religion in India. True/False |
| True | The largest concentration of Eastern Orthodox Christians is in Eastern Europe. True/False |
| False | Missionaries play a significant role in ethnic religions but not in univeralizing religions. True/False |
| True | Islam is a less hierarchical religion than Christianity. True/False |
| True | Many Baha'i churches that have been built in the letter part of the 20th century are dramatic in order to attract members. True/False |
| True | Jerusalem is important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam because all three have holy sites in the city. True/False |
| False | Jerusalem is a holy city to all three major universalizing religions. |
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