chapter 7 textbook

Question 1

Secularism

Answer 1

InDifference to or rejection of formal religion

Question 2

Animistic religions

Answer 2

Centred in the belief that inanimate objects such as mountains boulders rivers and trees possess spirits and should therefore be revered

Question 3

Universalizing religions

Answer 3

Actively seek converts because they view themselves as offering belief systems of universal appropriateness and appeal

Question 4

Ethnic religion

Answer 4

Members born in, converts not actively sought

Question 5

Hinduism points

Answer 5

• karma has to do with transferability if the soul
• reincarnation thru union with Brahman
• related to India’s caste system

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Question 6

Syncretic religions

Answer 6

Aka compromise religions. Basically take parts of a religion

Question 7

Buddhism points

Answer 7

From Hinduism
-enlightenment thru knowledge
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Question 8

Shintoism

Answer 8

Relates to Buddhism

-Popular I japan

Question 9

Taoism

Answer 9

• unclear origins
• people should live in harmony with nature
• feng shui- art and science of organizing living spaces in order to channel the life forces that exist in nature in favourable ways

Question 10

According to feng shui

Answer 10

Nothing should be done to nature without consulting geomancers, people who know the desires of the powerful spirits of ancestors and other beings that occupy the natural world and can give advice on how to order things

Question 11

Confucianism

Answer 11

Mainly a philosophy life and like Taoism it had a great and lasting impacts on Chinese life

Question 12

Diaspora

Answer 12

A term that signifies the spatial dispersion if members of any ethnic group

-originates from scattering of Jews after the Roman destruction of jersusalem

Question 13

Zionism

Answer 13

Zionist ideals are rooted in the belief that Jews should not be absorbed into other societies

Question 14

Islam

Answer 14

Youngest if major religions

• traced back to single founder, Muhammad
• believed allah already shown himself

Question 15

Indigenous religions

Answer 15

Local is scope usually have a reverence for nature - passed down thru family units and groups of indigenous peoples

Question 16

Shamanism

Answer 16

Community faith in which people follow their shaman, a religious leader, teacher, Healy, and visionary

Question 17

Secularism

Answer 17

Indifference to it rejection of organized religious affiliations and ideas

Question 18

Pilgrimage

Answer 18

When adhérents voluntarily travel to a religious site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site the act of travel

Question 19

Sacred sites

Answer 19

Places or spaces people infuse with religious meanings

Question 20

Minarets

Answer 20

Tower starched to a Muslim mosque having one or more projecting balconies fro. Which a crier calls muslims to prayer

Question 21

Hajj

Answer 21

One of the 5 pillars of Islam

Question 22

Inter vs interfaith boundaries

Answer 22

Between vs within a faith

Question 23

Boko haram translation

Answer 23

Western education is forbidden

Question 24

Activity space

Answer 24

The space within which daily activity occurs

— protestants and Catholics chose to seperare themselves in this fashion

Question 25

Religious fundamentalism

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Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy

Question 26

Religious extremism

Answer 26

Fundamentalism carries to the point of violence

Question 27

Jihad

Answer 27

Islamic holy ear