Ch. 6 Religion
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Triangular Slave Trade: or triangle trade, is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.
Exclave: is a territory legally attached to another territory with which it is not physically contiguous.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hearth | The region from which innovative ideas originate. This relates to the important concept of the spreading of ideas from one area to another (diffusion). |
| Cargo Cult Pilgrimage | Cargo Cult's believe western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia and is important go HG because it's a big religious movement by a large number of people. |
| Islam | The religion of 1.3 billion people, is the predominant religion of the Middle East from north Africa to Central Asia. In Arabic it means submission to the will of god. It is divided into two important branches, Sunni and Shiite. |
| theocracy | a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. |
| syncretism | the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties |
| Religion | a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, esp. when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. |
| Judaism | an ethnic religion based on lands bordering the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Christianity | a religion, has three major branches: Roman Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orothdox. |
| 5 Pillars of Faith | They are 5 Muslim guide lines 1. There is no god except Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. 2. you should pray 5 times a day, there are special rituals and movements to follow. 3. you give a fixed proportion of your savings to help the poor, so that you can be pure. 4. You don't have food or drink during the day light hours of Ramadan. 5. To make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in your life time. |
| Sunni | It makes up 90% of Islam people. The follow the five pillars of Faith |
| Crusaders | Series of military campaigns launched by European Christians |
| Muslims | an adherent of Islam |
| sacred space | an area or building where people of certain religion will gather around and pray of their religion |
| Universalizing religions | attempt to be global, to appeal to all people not just to those of one culture or location |
| Ethnic religion | appeals to one group of people living in one place |
| Protestant | A member of a Western Christian church whose faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the believers. |
| Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times |
| Ghetto | 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 a minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure |
| Interfaith Boundaries | The boundary of a religion in a country |
| diocese | the basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman-Catholic Church |
| sect | a relatively small group broken away from an established denomination (existing church) |
| Pilgramage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religion purposes. |
| Sikhism | Religion created by Guru Nanak. It is a religion which believes in only one "Creator" or The One Sumpreme Being who rules the universe by divine will. |
| Eastern Orthodox Church | The body of modern churches, including among others the Greek and Russian Orthodox, that is derived from the church of the Byzantine Empire, adheres to the Byzantine rite, and acknowledges the honorary primacy of the patriarch of Constantinople. |
| Roman Catholic Church | The Christian church characterized by an episcopal hierarchy with the pope as its head and belief in seven sacraments and the authority of tradition. |
| Shamanism | The practice of identifying special individuals (shamans) who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community. Characteristic of the Korean kingdoms of the early medieval period and of early societies of Central Asia. |
| hierarchal religion | A religion in which central authority exercises a high degree of control. |
| fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherance to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect) |
| syncretic religion | A combination of indigenous beliefs with a more predominant religion. |
| Nation of Islam | A movement born in the 1930's that created a seperate autonomous nation within the U.S. |
| Caste System | The stages of life in a religion. |
| Traditional religion | A term refering to a variety of religions indegenous to a certain continent. |
| Shia (or Shiite) | one of the two important branches in islam. from the arabic word for sectrian. |
| 4 Noble Truths | 1.all livin beings must endure suffering 2.suffering which is caused by a desire to live, leads to reincarnation(repeated rebirth in new bodie or forms of life) 3. the oal of all existence i to escape from sufferin and the endless cycle of reincarnation into nirvana(a state of complete redemption) which is achieved through mental and moral self-purification. 4. nirvana is attained through an eihfold path, which includes rightness of belief, resolve, speech, action, livelihood,effort,thought, and meditation. |
| Caliphate | the era of Islam's ascendancy from death of Mohammad until the 13th century |
| Iman | The belief or faith in the god, Allah; usually refers to the strength of conviction of a Muslim |
| 10 Commandments | The ethical morals and principles for the "chosen people" to live by, according to Judaism. |
| Buddhism | one of the world's major universalizing religions based on 4 truths set by the founder, Buddha, that has 362 million adherents |
| ayatollah | a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well |
| jihad | a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal |
| feng shui | rules in Chinese philosophy that govern spatial arrangement and orientation in relation to patterns of yin and yang and the flow of energy |
| reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings |
| monotheism | belief in the existence of only one god |
| polytheism | the worship of a collection, or many, gods |
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