Human geography chapter 6 religion
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. Everything has spirit. |
| Autonomous Religion | a religion that does not have a a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally. |
| Branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion |
| Caste | The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law. |
| Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the Universe. Something in the physical life created with earth as we know it. |
| Denomination | a division of a branch that unites a anumber of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. |
| Diocese | The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| Ethnic Religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribuition whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characterisitics of a particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
| Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect.) |
| Ghetto | During the Middle ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of a minority group life because of social, elgal, or economic pressure. |
| Hierarchical Religion | A religion in which a central authority excersis a high degree of control |
| Missionary | An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion. |
| Monotheism | The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god. |
| Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times |
| Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes. |
| Polytheism | Belief in or worship of more than one god. |
| Sect | a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
| Solstice | Time when the sun is farthest from the equator. |
| Universalizing religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. |
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