APHG Chapter 7 Religion Review

Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar?

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

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

Zoroastrianism is similar to Islam and Christianity in that it is

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

What are the two major branches of Islam?

Which of the following has the highest concentration of Muslims

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

Which of the following Balkan associations is incorrect?

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

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

Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are

The ideology of Zionism has as its goal:

Which is not an ethnic Asian religion

Which is a branch of Christianity?

The fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is:

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

The youngest of the major religions is:

In which region does shamanism currently have the highest presence

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

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

One of the unique characteristics of Hinduism is that it:

The fundamental doctrine of the Hindu faith is

The faith that is most widely dispersed over the world is

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

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

Which of these is most associated with animism?

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

A cornerstone of the Hindu faith is:

What policy did the British follow in India?

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

Palestinians include all but which of the following groups?

Buddhism has its source in

The dominant branch of Islam is

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

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

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

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

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

The hearth of Islam

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

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

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

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

What is the holiest book in Hinduism?

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

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

Under Communism, Confucianism has been

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

Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?

The location of shrines in Hinduism is important because:

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

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

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

The world's largest universalizing religion is

The former Soviet Union adopted _______________as its official religious policy.

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

Buddhism thrives in all these places EXCEPT

Especially important in Confucianism is to

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

Hinduism arose in the _____________ River valley.

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

Muslims are clustered in

Buddhism has its source in

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

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

The Hindu cultural landscape is characterized bycountless shrines because

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

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

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

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

Minarets are prominent in the architecture of which religions structures?

Mahayanists, in contrast to Theravadists, emphasizeBuddha's

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