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Ch. 6: Religion
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the holy books for the 3 religions? | Christianity & Judaism - The Bible, Islam - The Quran |
| Why was religious beliefs still playing a role in peoples lives? | You can't take away a persons religion and that's what the Chinese did because it was interfering with their aims |
| What is the difference between universalizing and ethnic religion? | universalizing tries to pull you in to a large religion followed by many and an ethnic is to a group in one place |
| What is the largest spread of religion? | Relocation Diffusion |
| How are religions divided? | into branches that go into denominations that break away to a sect |
| What makes you have no religion? | not believing at all or all the way |
| What is Christianity? | a wide spread religion with the most adherents |
| Where did Christianity originate? | Jerusalem from the teachings of Jesus in bethlehem from 8 B.C. on then diffused to Europe |
| Who taught Christianity? | Jesus |
| Why are Christians spread out so much? | Colonization |
| Where are Christians distributed? | N. & S. America, Europe, Australia, and not dominant but in Africa |
| How is Christianity spread out in the U.S.? | Baptists = SE, Lutherans = Upper Mid West, Catholic = SW or NE, Christians = Mid, Mormons = W,, Mennonite = scattered,Methodist = Mid & Mid E., Reformed = N. |
| Why is the U.S. a protestant? | Came from English |
| What is a denomination from Christianity? | The Englican Chirch, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran and Protestant |
| What are some sects from Christianity? | West Borough Baptist Church and meronites - clustered in Lebanon |
| What are some branches from Christianity? | Roman Cath. in the SW and E europe, Prot. in NW, and E. Orth in E and SE. |
| Why did many small branches of Christianity develop independently? | Isolation |
| What is the Coptic church? | a religion that originated in Syria and help diffused Christ to E. & S. Asia |
| What religion is second largest? | Islam |
| Where is Islam dominant? | Mid. East from N. Afr. to Central Asia. Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India |
| What is the Islamic belief represented by? | 5 pillars of faith |
| Which way do they pray? | East |
| What do you call the holy journey to Mecca that Muslims take? | The Hajj |
| What are the two branches of islam? | Sunni (the bigger one) who are from the middle east and Asia & Shi'ite who are from Iran, Pakistan and Iraq |
| Why are many Muslims in Germany? | Because of guest workers |
| Who is the messenger of Allah through the Nation of Islams in the U.S.? | Elijah Muhammad in the Black Muslims |
| What is Buddhism? | 3rd major religion mainly found in China and SE Asis |
| What is Buddhism represented by? | 4 Noble Truths |
| Why did Buddhism split into branches? | because of disagreements which formed: Mahayana in China Japan and Korea; Theravana in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Tailand; Tanthrayana in Mongolia; Zen in Japana; and Lama in Tibet |
| How is Hinduism unique? | No founder, single theology, or agreement of origin |
| Where is Hinduism concentrated? | in India, Caribbean islands and in the islands of bali |
| What is Confucianism? | Teaching of how to be "Good" |
| What is Daoism(Taoism)? | Seek the way and have geomancers who knows the desires of the powerful spirits |
| What is Shintoism? | Ethnic religion for Japan that is no longer a state religion |
| What is Judaism? | An ethnic religion where many live in the U.S., Israel and 1/3 the rest of the world. It was the first monotheistic religion |
| Who follows animism? | Africans |
| What is diaspora? | scattering of jews |
| Where did Islam originate? | through adam and abraham |
| What is the difference between Sunni and Shi'ite? | Shi'ite followed ali |
| Where did Buddhism originate? | Nepal from Siddhartha Gautama who took trips and spent 6 years in mediation who emerged as a buddah |
| What is the difference in the branches of Buddhism? | Theravada-oldest, Mahayana-plit from theravana |
| Who brought Hinduism to India? | The Aryan Tribes from Central Asia |
| Where did the 3 universalizing religions come from? | Asia |
| How did Christianity diffuse? | relocation through missionaries from it's hearth in Palestine later in the roman empire through contagious then to hierarchical |
| How did Islam diffuse? | Diffuses to North Africa, South and Southeast Asia by armies |
| How did Buddhism diffuse? | Slow diffusion from the core mostly responsible was asoka |
| Why do ethnic religions have limited diffusion? | lack missionaries and universal religions usually compete with ethnic religions |
| What are examples of mingling? | Christianity with African ethnic religions Buddhism with Confucianism in China and with Shinto in Japan |
| Why is Judaism an exception in distribution? | It is practiced in many countries |
| What are the 3 most important holy places to Buddhists? | Lumbini in Nepal, Bodh Gaya, Deer Park in Sarnath |
| what is the holiest places for Muslims? | Makkah |
| What are the holiest shrines in Hinduism? | natural features like the ganges |
| What cosmogony do Chinese believe in? | Yin and Yang |
| What cosmogony do most people believe in? | God created the universe |
| What is it like for the calendar in ethnic religions? | they care about the seasonal things for crops and animals |
| What is the calendar like for the Jewish? | major holidays are based on the agriculture, Sukkot:gathering of the fruits, Pesach: offering gods first fruits and Shavout: feast of weeks |
| What are the two holiest days on the Jewish calendar? | Rosh Hashanah(New Years) and Yom Kippur(Atonement) |
| What is a major holiday in pagan religion? | Winter solstice |
| What are some places of worship? | Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, Buddhist and Shinto pagodas |
| What are the differences between the places of worship? | Churches: a sanctified places to gather, Mosque: location for people to come together to worship, Temple:they house shrines for particular gods, Pagodas: a prominent attractive landscape, |
| How do the universalizing religions dispose of the dead? | Cemeteries |
| What are other ways to dispose of the dead? | Chinese and Hindus believe in cremation |
| What is a Utopian settlement? | an ideal community built around a religious way of life |
| What are some examples of a religious settlement? | Bethlehem, Penn., New Harmony, Indiana and Onieda, New York |
| How is the Roman Cath. religion organized? | pope, cardinal, archbishop, bishop and priest |
| Out of the 3 universalizing religions which provides the most local autonomy? | Islam |
| Religion versus Social Change | in ldc's participation in the global economy and culture can expose local residents to values and beliefs from mdc's |
| Taliban and Western values | When the taliban gained power of afghanistan they took away non-islam activities til the us stepped in and over threw them in 2001 |
| Hinduism and social inequality | Hindus had the caste system that broke up into many sections making it harder for social religion |
| Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam in the Soviet Union | following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution which overthrew czar the soviet government eliminated the church-state connection |
| Buddhism in Southeast Asia | Durinf the vietnam war no one was sympathetic to buddhists and blew up their shrines easliy |
| Religion versus Religion | fundamentalism |
| Religious wars in Ireland | Ireland yearned for independence and led to mass emigration which later became independent in 1937 |
| Religious wars in the Middle East | the 3 universalizing religions to have control over jerusalem |
| Crusades (Christians in Muslim lands) | The arab army was halted on their captures when christians made it clear they would be the dominant religion in europe |
| Jews and Muslims in Palestine | great britian took over palestine after wwi, few jews were let in and violence initiated. jerusalem was to be open to everyone so when british withdrew jews declared an independent state of israel. |
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