Theme 2 religious terms

Question 1

Universalizing Religion

Answer 1

a religion that attempts to be global and appeal yo all people’s cultures
ex: christianity, islam

Question 2

ethnic religion

Answer 2

appeals to one group of people in one place
ex: Hinduism

Question 3

monotheistic

Answer 3

believe in only one god
ex: christianity

Question 4

polytheism

Answer 4

belief in multiple gods
ex:

Question 5

missionaries

Answer 5

people who’s job it is to spread a religion

Question 6

hierarchical religion

Answer 6

a religion that is organized with clear leadership structures, and that leadership organizes land in which it is present to administrative units
ex: Roman Catholic Church

Question 7

autonomous religion

Answer 7

a self sufficient religion in which interaction among different religious communities is looser and unstructured
ex: most religions today.

Question 8

cultural landscape

Answer 8

religions are engrained geographically
ex: burial practices,
buildings, toponyms of locations

Question 9

pilgrimage

Answer 9

a journey significant to a religion
ex: Islam’s hajj

Question 10

Fundamentalism

Answer 10

literal and strict adherence to principals of a religion
ex: terror or violence from a religion

Question 11

literary tradition

Answer 11

languages that are written as well as spoken
ex: a language without a written form is Quencha from Inca empire.

Question 12

Official languages