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Rubenstein Ch6 Vocab
AP Human Geography - Rubenstein- Chapter 6: Religion - Vocab
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Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. |
Autonomous religion | A religion that doesn't have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally. |
Branch (of a religion) | A large and fundamental division within a religion. |
Caste | The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hinduis assigned according to religious law. |
Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe. |
Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body. |
Diocese | The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church. |
Ethnic Religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated. |
Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect). |
Ghetto | During the Middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal or economic pressure. |
Hierarchical religion | A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control. |
Missionary | An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion. |
Monotheism | The doctrine of belief of the existence of only 1 god. |
Pagan | A follower of polytheistic religion in ancient times. |
Pilgrimage | A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes. |
Polytheism | Belief in our worship or more than 1 god. |
Sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination. |
Solstice | Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator. |
Universalizing religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location. |