religion
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leekoester on December 17, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Secularism | a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations |
| Traditional religion | a religion that has originality and is not modernized |
| Syncretic religion | separate religions that combine into a new religion; often borrow from the past and the present. |
| Universal religion | religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those who live in a particular location |
| Ethnic religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
| Polytheistic religion | a religion with more than one god |
| Monotheistic religion | a religion with one god |
| Animistic religion | the beleif that inanimate objects, such as hills, trees, rocks, rivers, and other elements of natural landscape, possess souls and can help or hinder human efforts on Earth |
| Religious fundamentalism | religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy |
| Interfaith boundary | The boundaries between the world's major faiths. |
| Intrafaith boundary | The boundaries within a major religion. |
| Jihad | a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal |
| Sharia religious law | The system of Islamic law |
| Ethnic cleansing | the mass expulsion and killing of one ethic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area |
| Gender | the classification of being male or female |
| Enfranchisement | a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) |
| Longevity gap | the gap between the life expectancy of men and women |
| Maternal mortality rate | Number of deaths per thousand of women giving birth. |
| Female infanticide | the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and from the low value associated with the birth of females |
| Dowry deaths | the bride is brutally beat or killed for her fathers failure to fulfill the marriage agreement |
| Female genitalia mutilation | Complete or partial removal of the clitora on girls under the age of eleven |
| Caste system | a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity |
| Untouchables | LOWEST LEVEL OF INDIAN SOCIETY; not considered a real part of the caste system; often given degrading jobs; their life was extremely difficult |
| Karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation |
| Reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions |
| Brahman | the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category |
| Diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel |
| Ashkenazim | One of the two main ethnic groups within the Jewish culture. This branch eventually settled in Central Europe after having been driven out of Jerusalem early in the first millenium A.D |
| Sephardim | cultural tradition made up of descendants of Jews who moved to Spain and Potugal in Western Europe |
| Shiite | a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs |
| Sunni | one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam |
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