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| 6391539267 | Atheism | the belief that God does not exist | 0 | |
| 6391540893 | Agnosticism | the belief that the existence of God cannot be proven empirically. | 1 | |
| 6403803290 | Universalizing religion | a religion that attempts to be practiced globally and to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world and not just to those of one culture or religion. ex: Christianity |  | 2 |
| 6403814341 | Ethnic religion | a religion that appeals primarily to one group of people living in the place. ex: Hinduism (India), Taoism |  | 3 |
| 6403824138 | Congregation | a local assembly of people brought together for common religious worship. |  | 4 |
| 6403835190 | Denomination | a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body. | 5 | |
| 6403840835 | Branch | a large and fundamental division within a religion. | 6 | |
| 6437682244 | Syncretic | combining several traditions. |  | 7 |
| 6437776511 | Animism | the belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. |  | 8 |
| 6438052704 | Monotheism | the belief that there is only one all-powerful God. | 9 | |
| 6438054787 | Polytheism | a belief that is practiced by neighboring people who worship a collection of gods. | 10 | |
| 6445734820 | Missionaries | individuals who help to transmit a universalizing religion through relocation diffusion ex: people who carried the teachings of Jesus to South America |  | 11 |
| 6460754300 | Hierarchical Religion | a religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control ex: Roman Catholic hierarchy (Pope, Archbishop, etc.) |  | 12 |
| 6460784011 | Autonomous Religion | a religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally ex: Islam, Protestant |  | 13 |
| 6460806737 | Pilgrimage | a journey to a place considered for religious purposes |  | 14 |
| 6460814906 | Cosmogony | a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe ex: God or Allah is the creators) of the universe | 15 | |
| 6460823443 | Holy Places of Ethnic Religions | -less widespread distribution -holy places derive from the distinctive physical environment of its hearth (mountains, rivers, rock formations) | 16 | |
| 6516553446 | Holy Places of Universal Religions | -holy cities and other places associated with the founder's life -are not near each other -do not associate with any particular physical environment | 17 | |
| 6525448937 | Caste | the class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law |  | 18 |
| 6526049409 | Fundamentalism | the literal interpretation and strict compliance to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or congregation). ex: The Taliban in Afghanistan | 19 |
