APHG Eager chapter 7 part B
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20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Jihad | holy war |
| Shari'a laws | the system of Islamic law, sometimes called Quranic law. Unlike most western systems of law that are based on legal precedence, sharia is based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Quran. |
| religious extremism | Religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence. |
| religious fundamentalism | religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy |
| Activity space | The space within which daily activity occurs. |
| ethnic cleansing | a systematic elimination of people based upon their ethnicity |
| intrafaith boundaries | boundaries within a single major faith |
| interfaith boundaries | boundaries between the world's major faiths. |
| hajj | the pilgrimage to Mecca |
| minarets | Tower attached to a Muslim mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a crier calls Muslims to prayer. |
| sacred sites | place or space people infuse with religious meaning |
| pilgrimage | Voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site. |
| secularism | The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on Earth, not to accommodate the prescriptions of a deity and promises of a comfortable afterlife. A secular state is the opposite of a theocracy. |
| shamanism | Community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their shaman- a religious leader, teacher, healer and visionary. |
| indigenous religions | Belief systems and philosophies practiced and traditionally passed from generation to generation among peoples within an indigenous tribe or group |
| Shi'ite | Adherents of one of the two main divisions of Islam. Also known as Shiahs, the Shiites represent the Persian variation of Islam and believe in the infallibility and divine right to authority of the Imams, descendants of Ali |
| Sunni | Adherents to the largest branch of Islam, called the orthodox or traditionalist. They believe in the effectiveness of family and community in the solution of life's problems, and they differ from the Shiites in accepting the traditions (sunna) of Muhammad as authoritative. |
| Islam | the youngest of the major world religions, islam is based on the teachings of muhammad |
| Protestant | One of the three major branches of Christianity (together with the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church). Following the widespread societal changes in Europe starting in the 1300s CD, many adherents to the Roman Catholic Church began to question the role of religion in their lives and opened the door to the Protestant Reformation wherein John Huss, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and others challenged many of the fundamental teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Roman Catholic Church | one of the three major branches of Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church, together with the Eastern Orthodox Church, a second of the three major branches of Christianity, arose out of the division of the Roman Empire by Emperor Diocletian into four governmental regions; two western regions centered in Rome, and two eastern regions centered in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). In 1054 CE Christianity was divided along that same line when the Eastern Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople; and the Roman Catholic Church, centered in Rome, split. |
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