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Universalizing religion

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Attempt to be global to appeal to all people wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location

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Ethnic religion

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Appeal primarily of one of people living in one place

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Atheism

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Belief that God doesn't exsist

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Agnosicism

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Belief that nothing can be known about weather God exists

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World percent of Roman Catholics

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50%

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World percent of Protestants

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25%

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World percent of Orthodox

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10%

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Regarding Eastern Orthodox churches, how many separate churches are there, and which has the largest membership

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•14 •The Russian Orthodox Church

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What percentage of Latin Americans are Roman Catholic

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93%

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Protestants comprise 28% of North Americans. List the five largest denominations

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Baptist Methodist Pentecostal Lutheran Roman Catholic

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Half of the worlds Muslims live in the Middle East. The other have live in four countries outside the Middle East. Name them

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Indonesia Pakistan Bangladesh India

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Percentage of Sunni Percentage of Shiite

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83% 16%

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Only in four countries do Shiite Muslims number more than Sunni. What are they?

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Iran Pakistan Iraq Azerbaijan

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Mahayanas percent of global Buddhist population and regions of predominance

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56% China, Japan, and Korea

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Theravadas percent of global Buddhist population and regions of predominance

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38% Sri Lanka, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar

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Tantrayana percent of global Buddhist population and regions of predominance

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69% Tibet and Mongolia

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Why were Buddhists difficult to count?

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Only few people participate in Buddhist institutions

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Where were Hindus concentrated? What percentage of all Hindus live there? Where are the rest

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India 97% 2%-Nepal 1%-dispersed

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Confucianism

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Prescribed a series of ethical principles for the orderly conduct of daily life

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Taoism

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Cannot be comprehended by reason and knowledge because not everything is a noble

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Primal-Indigenous

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Little is known about the religions because written documents haven't come down from ancestors

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Animism

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They believe that inanimate objects of natural events have this great spirits and conscious life

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Spiritism

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Most reside in Brazil

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Judaism

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First recorded religion to expose monotheism Abraham is the patriarch of Judaism

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What are the four noble truths?

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• all living beings must endure suffering • suffering which is caused by a desire to live leads to reincarnation • The goal of all existence is escape suffering and that unless I go a ring carnation into nirvana which is achieved through mental and moral self-purification • Nirvana is attained through an eight fold path which includes rightness of believe resolve speech action livelihood effort thought and meditation

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What to ancient peoples believes blended to form Hinduism

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Aryans Dravidians

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Give three explanations for the diffusion of Christianity

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Relocation diffusion Contagious diffusion Hierarchal diffusion

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Give three ways in which Islam spread

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Relocation diffusion Muslim armies Intermarriage

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Shintoism and Buddhism blended in?

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Japan

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African practices and Christianity blended in?

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Africa

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Namibia, Equatorial ginea, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity blended in?

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The islands of Mairitaus

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How was it's distribution very different from other ethnic religion

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Practiced in many countries

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Diaspora

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When the Romans force the Jews to move around the world

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How were most Jews treated as they lived among the nationalities

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They were persecuted

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What is the origin of the term ghetto

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In Venice Italy a reference to the cities Foundery for metalcasting district

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In what two ways is a religious structures often stand out in the landscape

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Burial of the dead Religious settlements

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Why do many Christian churches vary in architectural style?

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Christianity is split into many denominations

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Identify four specific visual features of a typical mosque

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• around a central courtyard • pulpit at the end of the court yard facing Mecca • cloisters surrounding the courtyard • Minaret-tower in the middle

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What is the religious purpose of a Buddhist pagoda

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Pagodas contain relics that Buddhist believe to be a portion of Buddhas body or clothing

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How was pilgrimage of her of the developing of pagodas

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Buddhist carried the relics to other countries and Bill pagodas for them after Buddha died

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Formal worship in a pagoda is not typical. Where does it usually take place?

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More likely to be undertaken at an adjacent temple at a remote monastery or at a home

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Pilgrimage

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A journey for religious purposes to a place considered sacred

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How are Hindu temples different than both churches in mosques

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Congregational worship isn't part of Hinduism so there are no seats

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List three typical features of a Hindu temple

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•small dimly lit •a structure for a caretaker •pool for ritual baths

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List three examples of how religions have Inc. characteristics of cosmology

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Yin yang Christianity Islam

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Solstice

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An astronomical event that happens twice a year when the tilt of the earth's axis is most inclined to One Direction

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What is the most prominent feature of a calendar in an ethnic religion

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Celebration of the season the calendars annual cycle of variation in climatic conditions

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What is the principal purpose of the calendar in the universalizing religion

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Major holidays relate to events in the life of the founder rather than to the changing seasons of one particular place

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How is the Jewish calendar typical of ethnic use of the calendar

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It's major holidays are based on events in the agricultural calendar of the religions homeland and present-day Israel

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Difference between Jewish and Muslim lunar calendar

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Jewish calendar inserts extra month every few years to maintain its agricultural and solar calendars Muslims remain a strict lunar calendar Muslim holidays arrive in different seasons from generation to generation

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How was the date of Easter related to the physical geography through the calendar

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Serves observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon

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Why do different Christian branches celebrate Easter on different days

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It depends on where they're living

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How is the similar to Buddhisms major holidays

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Not all Buddhists observe them on the same day

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Hierarchical religion

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Well defined geographic structure and originates territory into local administrative wits

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Why are parishes in Latin America so much larger than Europe

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Lower population density in parishes must work closely

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Autonomous religion

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Self-sufficient and interaction among communities is confined to little more than loose corporation and shared ideas

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In the Absence of hierarchy what is only four more organization of territory in Islam

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Through the coincidence of religious territory with sector states

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What holds Islam together

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The Koran and language and location

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List some religions and denominations with on autonomous religion

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Hinduism, Judaism, Baptist, United Church of Christ, Presbyterian

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List some religions and denominations with hierarchical religions

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Christian denominations, lutheran, most Methodist, episcopalian

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What aspect of Hinduism has clashed with the western modern ideas

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The caste system

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What Western groups criticize this aspect why

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British administration and Christian missionaries because they point out the shortcomings of the caste system the neglect of the untouchable health problems

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How has the Indian government responded to this issue

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They abolished the untouchables caste making everyone equal

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And Russia Soviet union how did each of the following attempt to limit the influence of religion specifically the eastern orthodox church

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Czar Petr the great- Czar and Peter the Great made the Russian orthodox church part of the Russian government All church buildings can only be used with the permission of the local government Communism- a form of socialism the abolishes private ownership

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How was the Vietnam war detrimental to Buddhism in Southeast Asia

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Destroyed many Buddhist shrines

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How were communist regimes detrimental to Buddhism in Southeast Asia

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Allowed shines and monuments that did make it through the Vietnam War to decay and be overtaken by the forest

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Fundamentalism

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A literal interpretation and a strict and intense adherence to basic principles of a religion

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What are two religious groups in conflict in Ireland

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Roman Catholic Protestants

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Where Roman Catholics mostly located

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The rest of the area west of Belfast

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Where are protestants mostly located

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Northern part like United Kingdom and east of Belfast

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What religions are in constant conflict of the land in the Middle East

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Judaism, Islam and Christianity

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What was the military campaign by the Christians to recapture there holy land from the Muslims

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Crusades

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Judaism's Jerusalem Islam's Jerusalem

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The location of Solomon's temple and the western wall The most important structure is the dome of the rock

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Which isn't a universalizing religion

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Judaism

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Roman catholic predominates in which area

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South America

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Not one of the five pillars of Islam

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Make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem

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Which region is the large number found of adherence to ethnic religions found

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East Asia

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What are the five pillars of Islam

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•no god but Allah •pray 5 times a day •giving charity • fasting during the month of Ramadan • pilgrimage to Mecca

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