Chapter 6 Key Issue 1

Hinduism is the world's ___ largest religion and concentrated nearly entirely in ___

3rd, India

Denomination

A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal body

Branch

A large and fundamental division within a religion

Universalizing religions

A religions that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular region -widely distributed -Islam, Christianity, Buddhism

Polytheism

Belief in many gods

Monotheism

Belief in one God

Asia has countries where ____ or ____ is the most widely practiced religion

Buddhism, Hinduism

Muslims are very large in ___ and ____, ____

Central Asia, Southwest Asia, North Africa

In countries such as ____, the largest number of people are ____

China, Unaffiliated

Some folk religions are...

Chinese traditional, primal-indigenous, and African traditional (6% of the world)

___ and ___ find some of their roots in Judaism

Christian, Islam

_____ is the most widely practiced religion in every country of the Western Hemisphere and in most countries of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa

Christianity

The four largest religions are...

Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism (77% of the world)

Syncretic

Combining several religious traditions

Many Chinese syncretic religions combine...

Confucianism and Taoism

Ethnic religions

Contributed with spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location -small and not widely distributed -Hinduism, Judaism, folk regions

The four regions with more diverse religious composition are...

East Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia

Buddhism is clustered primarily in ___ and ___

East, Southeast Asia

Taoism

Emphasizes studying nature to know ones place in the world

Primal-Indigenous Ethnic Religions

Followers believe that because God dwells within all things, everything in nature is spiritual

____ is most widely practiced religion in nearly every country of Southwest Asia and North Africa, as well as Central Asia

Islam

____ is the most widely practiced religion in Israel

Judaism

Other religions are...

Judaism, Juchte, Sikhism, and Spiritism (1% of the world)

Roman Catholics are more common in ____ ____ while Protestants are more common in ___ ___

Latin America, North America

Buddhism is split into three main branches...

Mahayana, Theravada, Vajryana

Unaffiliated religions...

Not connected with any other religion (16% of the world)

Three major branches of Christianity...

Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox

Roman Catholic in the ____, Protestant in the ____, and Orthodox in the ____

South, North, East

Primal-Indigenous ethnic religions are relatively common in...

Southeast Asia or South Pacific Islands

Islam's Branches: ___ and ___ are based on a disagreement on the line of succession from Muhammad (the founder)

Sunni, Shiite

Confucianism

System based on the correct behaviors of all people

Atheism

Th belief that God does not exist

Animism

The belief that objects, such as plants, have a discrete spirit and conscious life

Congregation

a local assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship

Agnosticism

the belief that God's existence cannot be known