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Chapter 6 Religion
Directions: Use your notes and textbook to complete the answers to the following questions.
- What is a large and fundamental division within a religion?
- What is an ethnic religion?
- What is a sect?
- What is the definition of a universalizing religion?
- What is the world's largest universalizing religion?
- What is the world's largest ethnic religion?
- What religion do almost 90 percent of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to?
- Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America?
- Where are Baptists clustered in the US?
- Where are Lutherans clustered in the United States?
- Where are Roman Catholics clustered in the United States?
- Why are Roman Catholics clustered in the U.S. southwest primarily because of migration from where?
- Eastern Orthodoxy is an example of a Christian what?
- Lutheranism is an example of a Christian what?
- Where are Muslims clustered?
- What is the dominant branch of Islam?
- What is the dominant branch of Islam in Iran?
- What is the holiest book in Hinduism?
- Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasize Buddha's what?
- Adherents of which religion are also likely to believe in other religions simultaneously?
- What do animists believe?
- Which is an ethnic Asian religion?
- What performance is especially important in Confucianism?
- Reflection on what is especially important in Daoism?
- Define monotheism.
- Define polytheism.
- Define cosmogony.
- Followers of which religious branch do not trace their origin to Abraham?
- Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion, primarily because of what?
- Christianity first diffused from its hearth through what?
- Adherents of which religion controlled much of present-day Spain until 1492, but not since then?
- The agricultural calendar is relatively unimportant to which type of religions?
- The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city where who lived?
- Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar?
- The people of Quebec are distinguished from residents of neighboring Canadian provinces and the United States because they use what?
- How does a mosque differ from a church?
- Where is worship in Hinduism most likely to take place?
- Cremation is more important than burial in which religion?
- Protestants in Ireland are located where?
- The goal of the majority of people living in Northern Ireland is to do what?
- What is Hinduism's caste system?
- The United Nations partition plan dividing Palestine placed Jerusalem under what?
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