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| 11818971850 | Animisim | belief that object, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life | 0 | |
| 11818971851 | Autonomous religion | A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally. | 1 | |
| 11818971852 | Religious Branch | large and basic division within a religion | 2 | |
| 11818971853 | cemetery | An area of ground set aside and dedicated for the final disposition of dead human bodies. | 3 | |
| 11818971854 | Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. | 4 | |
| 11818971855 | Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. | 5 | |
| 11818971856 | Diocese | The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church | 6 | |
| 11818971857 | ethnic religion | a religion that is particular to one culturally distinct group of people | 7 | |
| 11818971858 | Fundamentalism | a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. | 8 | |
| 11818971879 | Geomacy (feng shui) | 9 | ||
| 11818971859 | 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 any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. | 10 | |
| 11818971860 | Hierarchical religion | A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control. | 11 | |
| 11818971861 | indigenous | native | 12 | |
| 11818971862 | Interfaith boundary | boundaries between the world's major faiths | 13 | |
| 11818971863 | Monotheism | belief in only one god | 14 | |
| 11818971864 | intrafaith boundaries | boundaries within a single major faith | 15 | |
| 11818971865 | Pilgrimage | a journey to a sacred place | 16 | |
| 11818971866 | polytheistic religion | a religion with more than one god | 17 | |
| 11818971867 | proselytic religion | a universalizing religion, which is an attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just those of one culture or location | 18 | |
| 11818971868 | Religion | the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. | 19 | |
| 11818971869 | schism | (n.) a formal split within a religious organization; any division or separation of a group or organization into hostile factions | 20 | |
| 11818971870 | sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. | 21 | |
| 11818971871 | Secularism | A doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations. | 22 | |
| 11818971872 | Shamanism | an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | 23 | |
| 11818971873 | Sharia Law | the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | 24 | |
| 11818971874 | Syncretism | a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith | 25 | |
| 11818971875 | traditional religion | a religion that has originality and is not modernized | 26 | |
| 11818971876 | tribal religion | special forms of ethnic religions distinguished by their small size, unique identity with localized culture groups not absorbed into modern society, and close ties to nature | 27 | |
| 11818971877 | Universalizing Religion | Religion that seeks to unite people from all over the globe. | 28 | |
| 11818971878 | Zionism | A movement to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine | 29 |