Ch 6 Religion

7 Written Questions

1. Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
2. 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.
3. An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.
4. The class of distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law.
5. belief in or worship of more than one god
6. A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.
7. A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
   1. Pagan
   2. Ghetto
   3. Sect
   4. Caste
2. A large and fundamental division within a religion
   1. Branch
   2. Sect
   3. Pagan
   4. Caste
3. A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.
   1. Autonomous Religion
   2. Hierarchical Religion
   3. Universalizing Religion
   4. Ethnic Religion
4. A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
   1. Animism
   2. Pagan
   3. Pilgrimage
   4. Solstice
5. The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god.
   1. Monotheism
   2. Animism
   3. Polytheism
   4. Diocese
6. The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church
   1. Sect
   2. Diocese
   3. Caste
   4. Animism

6 True/False Questions

1. Autonomous 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.

   True        False

2. Denomination → A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body.

   True        False

3. Fundamentalism → Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.

   True        False

4. Cosmogony → A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times.

   True        False

5. Pagan → The class of distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law.

   True        False

6. Solstice → Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator

   True        False