AP World History Summer Vocab - RELIGIOUS TERMS Flashcards
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| 7018792849 | Ancestor veneration | the custom of showing love and respect for deceased ancestors who are considered still a part of the family and whose spirits are believed to have the power to intervene in the affairs of the living | 0 | |
| 7018792850 | Asceticism | severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons | 1 | |
| 7018793902 | Divination | the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means | 2 | |
| 7018793903 | Monasticism | a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work (men are called monks and women are called nuns) | 3 | |
| 7018794895 | Monotheism | the doctrine or belief that these is only one God | 4 | |
| 7018794896 | Polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god | 5 | |
| 7018840079 | Priest | one authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion especially as an agent between humans and the god or gods of said religion | 6 | |
| 7018795834 | Shamanism | a religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the shamans | 7 |