AP Human Geography Ch. 6

Animism

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-belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life
-That I thought thunderstorms were caused by giants living underneath us

Autonomous religion

-religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally
- such as Islamic

-large and fundamental division within a religion
-Roman Catholic

-class of distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law
-The highest position was a priest

-set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
-Can be different in every religion

-division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body
-Presbyterian

-basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church
-Is headed by a Bishop

Ethnic religion

-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
-Hinduism

-literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
-Is important way how groups keep their distinct cultural identity

-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 live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
-We think of this as the bad part of town