Chapter 6 VOCAB AP Flashcards
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| 12296608095 | Athesim | The belief that God does not exist | 0 | |
| 12296611629 | Agnosticism | The belief that the existence of God can't be proven empirically | 1 | |
| 12296616591 | Universalizing Religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. | 2 | |
| 12296619771 | ethnic religion | A 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. | 3 | |
| 12296627900 | congregation | A local assembly of people brought together for common religious worship. | 4 | |
| 12296630020 | Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. | 5 | |
| 12296637190 | branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion | 6 | |
| 12296638784 | Syncretic | Combining several religious traditions | 7 | |
| 12296641891 | Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. | 8 | |
| 12296645803 | Monotheism | The doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god. | 9 | |
| 12296651088 | Polythesim | the belief in or worship of more than one god. | 10 | |
| 12296652812 | Missionaries | An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion. | 11 | |
| 12296655039 | Ghettos | 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 group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. | 12 | |
| 12296667870 | Hierarchical religion | A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control. | 13 | |
| 12296671652 | Autonomous religion | A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally. | 14 | |
| 12296674235 | Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes. | 15 | |
| 12296675876 | Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. | 16 | |
| 12296677663 | Solstice | When the tilt of Earth's axis is most inclined toward or away from Sun it creates the shortest and longest days twice each year | 17 | |
| 12296690799 | Caste | The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law. | 18 | |
| 12296695992 | Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect). | 19 | |
| 12296706373 | Religion | General term for the belief in and worship of a supernatural power, especially a personal God or gods. | 20 | |
| 12296715802 | Secularism | Describes attitudes, activities, etc., that aren't religious or spiritual ; not connected with religion | 21 | |
| 12296735965 | Diaspora | From the Greek word meaning "to disperse"; the scattering of people who have a common culture or background | 22 | |
| 12296745509 | Zionism | Movement to unite the Jewish people and to establish a national homeland for them in the promised land | 23 | |
| 12296755417 | interfaith boundary | Boundaries between the two or more of the world's major faiths. Ex: there is a stark interfaith boundary between India and Pakistan, dividing Hinduism and Islam. | 24 | |
| 12296766682 | Intrafaith boundary | Boundaries within a single major faith. Ex: in Northern Ireland the Protestant majority and Catholic minority are in conflict over coexistence and their future. | 25 |