APHG Chapter 7 Religion Review

The goal of the majority of people living in Northern Irelandis to

What is the holiest book in Hinduism?

Which of these is not a characteristic of an ethnic religion?

The Hindu religion, oldest of the great religions, may have begun   ?   years ago.

Which is a branch of Christianity?

Under Communism, Confucianism has been

The faith that is most widely dispersed over the world is

Which is not an ethnic Asian religion

Islamic villages and cities are dominated by elaborate, ornate, and magnificently designed:

Which religious group in India demanded independence & a proposed a state in the Punjab?

The fundamental doctrine of the Hindu faith is

Which of the following has the highest concentration of Muslims

The city of Jerusalem has sacred space that is bitterly contested by all except 

The Hindu cultural landscape is characterized bycountless shrines because

When the USSR collapsed, the religion that quickly revived in the Central Asian republics was:

The hearth of Islam

The fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is:

Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

As Buddhism diffused to other lands, it lost ground in its source country which was:

Which of these is most associated with animism?

In Egypt, Muslim radicals have destroyed one of the country’s major sources of income by:

Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?

Minarets are prominent in the architecture of which religions structures?

The pagoda is the style of building most often associated with:

The precepts of Islam constituted is a revision and embellishment of___beliefs and traditions.

What are the two major branches of Islam?

Which of the following is the "parent" of Buddhism?

In much of South and East Asia the Bodhi tree is protected and revered because:

Adherents of which religion are also likely to believe in other religions simultaneously?

The dominant branch of Islam is

Historical geography of the dispersal of religions is better known than early languages b/c:

Sikhism is a small compromise religion that arose from the confrontation between Hinduism and:

Geomancers, men who know the desires of the spirits are still a strong force in:

Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the holiest site for which religion?

One of the unique characteristics of Hinduism is that it:

Buddhism has its source in

The rise of fundamentalism is a phenomenon that seems to afflict:

In the dominantly Christian USA there are actually more than __religious denominations.

The African country where a major cluster of Eastern Orthodox churches survive is

Hinduism arose in the _____________ River valley.

Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar?

What policy did the British follow in India?

Especially important in Confucianism is to

In overwhelmingly Muslim Indonesia, what island remains a Hindu outpost?

Zoroastrianism is similar to Islam and Christianity in that it is

Islam is predominate in northern __,while traditional religions are predominate in the south

Sikhism is not a large religion, probably having no more than___million adherents.

Caste system of socioeconomic segregation based on family and occupation is in

Buddhism thrives in all these places EXCEPT

Palestinians include all but which of the following groups?

Which European country was responsible forintroducing Christianity to Middle and South America

Modern Judaism has three main divisions. Which of the following is not one of these?

In Nigeria today the    ?    religion has the greatest number of adherents.

Which of the following Balkan associations is incorrect?

The belief that inanimate objects (e.g. trees,mountains, boulders) contain spirits is 

The oldest religion to emerge west of the Indus valley is Judaism which emerged about:

Both Islam and Hinduism diffused through the relocation process, but unlike Hinduism, Islam:

The Yellow River is to Chinese Philosophy as the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are to __________

Buddhism has its source in

Which country is not one that straddles Africa’s transition zone between Islam & non-Islam?

The location of shrines in Hinduism is important because:

The first of the three major branches of Christianity to develop was:

voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to participate in a ritual at the site

In Northern Ireland today, about what percent of the population is Protestant?

In which region does shamanism currently have the highest presence

The ideology of Zionism has as its goal:

When India became a state it declared itself to be a secular federation which means that:

A cornerstone of the Hindu faith is:

The former Soviet Union adopted _______________as its official religious policy.

Muslims are clustered in

The world's largest universalizing religion is

Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasizeBuddha's

The youngest of the major religions is:

Which of the following lists religions that all started in Southwest Asia?