AP Human Geo Unit 3b Vocab - Universalizing Religions

Question 1

A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.

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Pilgrimage

Question 2

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion

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Fundamentalism

Question 3

Religion that attempts to appeal to all people

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Universalizing Relgion

Question 4

The belief in many Gods

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Polytheism

Question 5

Religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution

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Ethnic Religion

Question 6

A large and fundamental division within a religion

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Branch

Question 7

An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion

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Missionary

Question 8

A class into which a Hindu is assigned

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Caste

Question 9

A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control

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Hierarchical Religion

Question 10

The belief that nothing can be known about whether God exists.

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Agnosticism

Question 11

A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.

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Autonomous Religion

Question 12

Christianity is an example of

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Universalizing Religion

Question 13

Hinduism is an example of

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Ethnic Religion

Question 14

A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination

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Sect

Question 15

Baptist is an example of a

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Denomination

Question 16

Astronomical event that happens twice a yr resulting in the shortest and longest days of a yr

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Solsitice

Question 17

The division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal body

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Denomination

Question 18

A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe

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Cosmogony

Question 19

The belief in one God

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Monotheism

Question 20

Confucianism is an example of

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Ethnic Religion

Question 21

A follower of a polytheistic religion

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Pagan

Question 22

A religion that combines several traditions.

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syncretic

Question 23

A reference to the city's foundry or metal-casting district where Jews were forced to live.

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Ghetto

Question 24

The belief that inanimate objects such as plants or natural events have discrete spirits

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Animism

Question 25

Roman Catholic is an example of a

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Branch

Question 26

The belief that God does not exist

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Atheism

AP Human Geo Unit 3b Vocab - Universalizing Religions

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AP Human Geo Unit 3b Vocab - Universalizing Religions

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