Cultural Patterns and Processes

Where would I most likely find Shintoism?

Variation of a parent languagebased regional or cultural differences.

Term meaning that places have been named due to religious influences.

Christianity originated in:

Way of life of a group of people as expressed through traditions, art, food and social customs

Stories handed down through generations, often through oral history, telling values of society.

Which would not be a part of a group's material culture?

Religious movements that emphasize strict literal adherence to basic tenets of a belief system.

What is the largest language family

Which is not a part of Buddhism? 

Idea that when a person dies, he or she is reborn as a different being.

Which is not a Romance language?

Imaginary line in China that determines whether main crop is rice or wheat?

Most of popular culture originates in the:

The majority of Muslims are:

What is the time period in which a Muslim fasts from sun-up to sun-down?

Most spoken language in the world.

Belief system where adherents have an obligation to convert others.

Branches or subgroups within a larger belief system, particularly within Christianity.

Which which no longer be considered a Lingua Franca?

Which is not one of Hindu three main dieties?

Beleif system beginning in Persia in 19th century, embracing aspects of other world religions.

Belief in more than one god.

Language that blends two or more other languages creating a new language.

Building styles that develop in certain areas based on available resources and human need.

Which major world religion is oldest?

Chinese ethnic religion focusing mainly on relationships with others rather than faith in a god

Which of the following is not an ethnic religion?

Which Biblical character is important to Judaism, Christianity and Islam?

Which is not one of the five pillars of Islam?

Which of the following is not one of the main branches of Christianity?

Which would not be an example of non-material culture?

Which would not be considered a "landscape of the dead?"

The term for the three main gods of the Hindu faith.

Areas where English is the dominant language and cultural patterns tend to be western.

Culture practiced by a local or regional group, with traditions handed down through generations

Primary language used to facilitate communication among those who do not speak same language

Manner in which people communicate with each other in written or spoken form.

Belief system that holds that natural objects have spitritis or souls.

In which country would I most likely find a Shiite Muslim?