| Term | Definition |
| 6) Race | identity with a group of people descended from a common ancestor |
| 6) Acculturation | Process in which members of one cultural group adopt the beliefs and behaviours of another group. ex. many indigenous people have lost their traditional culture (most evidently language) and replaced by that of the dominant new culture. |
| 6) Ethnic group | a group of human beings whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry |
| 6) Cultural adaptation | the process of adapting to a cultural heritage, language or ethnicity. There are going to be challenges faced through the diversity and clashes of different cultures. |
| Religion | a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects. Religions are considered either universalizing or ethnic, depending on if they are global, or solely in a specific country or region. |
| Sharia law | The legal framework within which public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles. |
| 6) Ethnicity | Is identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth. |
| 6) Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
| 6) Chain Migration | Migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
| Religious architectural styles | Practice concerned with the design and construction of places of worship and/or sacred or intentional space, such as churches, mosques, stupas, synagogues, and temples. |
| Mormonism | Term used to describe the religious, ideological, and cultural elements of certain branches of the Latter Day Saint movement, specifically, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| Monotheism/Polytheism | In religion, a belief in one personal god. In practice, monotheistic religion tends to stress the existence of one personal god that controls the universe. The term is applied specifically to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as Zoroastrianism. |
| Religious Toponym | Example would be the St.Peters Basilica or Pakistan. The study of places given names with religious significance. |
| Reincarnation | -The belief that after this life you will come back in another life either as a plant, animal, or a human life.
-What you do in this life will affect what your next life
-Buddhist and Hinduism |
| Theocracy | A form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler. Iran and the Vatican are both considered to have a this government. |
| 6) Ethnic landscape | The landscape formed by the ethnicities living in that area
i.e.)where chinese ethnic groups migrated - china town becomes part of landscape |
| Religious conflict | Examples would include "The Troubles" between Catholic and Protestant Christians in North Ireland, and Jewish/Israelis and Muslim Palestinians/Israel's Muslim tensions in modern day Israel. |
| 6) Infanticide | The Islamic and Arabic practice of killing unwanted babies, usually unwanted female babies or babies with defections. still practiced in some countries today. |
| Landscapes of the Dead | There are three main techniques to dispose of the Dead. They are; Burial, Cremation, and Exposure. Burial is the technique embraced by the Christians, Baha'i, Muslims, and Jews. Cremation; Hindus, High Ranking Buddhists. Exposure; Parsis. |
| 6) Segregation | the separation of different races in daily activities, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain |
| Ethnic religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution. Principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular locations in which its followers are concentrated.Ex. Shinto, Judaism, Hinduism |
| 6) Ethnic neighborhood | a neighborhood formed by the one group of ethnicity.
i.e.)The neighborhood where African Americans live- the ghetto |
| Interfaith boundaries | Boundaries between the world's major faiths, such as Christianity, Muslim, and Buddhism. Separates different groups of people for different reasons. |
| 6) Ethnic cleansing | a term when ethnics groups forcibly remove another less powerful ethnic group to create an ethnically homogeneous region. This concept differs from wars where it was simply to defeat an enemy, while ethnic cleansing is to rid an entire ethnic. eg. Rwanda |
| 6) adaptive strategy | it is used to describe a society’s system of economic production. It is believed that the most important reason for similarities between two (or more) unrelated societies is their possession of a similar adaptive strategy. |
| Secularism | Belief that certain sorts of institutions should be kept separate from religious influence. Examples being separation of church and state. Eg. Canada |
| 6) Enclave | A country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country or wholly lying within the boundaries of another country. Examples are Republic of San Marino, Vatican City, Kingdom of Lethoso, Portugal, South Korea, Denmark |
| 6) Cultural shatterbelt | a politically unstable region where differing cultural elements come into contact and conflict. Cultural clashes. for example, Indonesia with a background of multicultural, ethnicities and religions. |
| Sacred space | Deemed holy by a religious group. Groups will hold religious ceremonies, build major temples or hold major events in these areas. Where Religious Sites overlap (Jerusalem) there may be conflict. |
| 6) Chain migration | the migration of people to a specific location, because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there. |
| 6) Enfranchisement | granting franchise to; admitting citizenship and giving right to vote. |
| 6) Social distance | distance between different groups of society. It's opposed to locational difference. Social distance includes all the differences such as social class, ethnicity, race, or sexuality. |
| 6) Plural society | a society combining ethnic contrasts: the economic interdependence of those groups |
| Taoism | Is often distinguished as separate ethnic religions in China. Many Chinese consider themselves both Buddhist and ______. Based on the mystical and magical aspects of life. Banned by communists in 1949. |
| 6) Ethnic conflict | conflicts arise when a country contains several ethnicities competing with each other for control or dominance. Conflicts also arises when an ethnicity is divided among more than one country. |
| Jainism | One of the oldest religions of the world, originating in ancient India. Stresses spiritual independence, equality of life, non-violence, and consequences for ones behaviour. |
| Shamanism | Refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. |
| 6) Ethnic enclave | when a community or ethnic group is trapped and is completely surrounded by an unfriendly population or government. eg. the gaza strip, but can also mean the ghettos in U.S. |
| Sunni/Shia | sunni/shia are the two major denominations of Islam. Approximately 85% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, whilst the remaining 15% are Shi'a. |
| Islam | The second largest religion in the world. Means the submission to the will of god. It originated with the teachings of Muhammad. |
| Confucianism | Ancient Chinese - ethical and philosophical. Its focus is human morality and good deeds. Is a complex system of moral, social, political, philosophical values. Not a religion or ancestor worship. Examples of where it influences China,Korea. |
| Judaism | Is the religion of the Hebrew people, based on principles and ethics embodied in their Bible. In 2007, this religious population was estimated at 13.2 million people with 41% if them living in Israel. |
| Religion (groups, places) | The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Can be universalizing or ethnic in nature. A particular system of faith and worship. |
| Zoroastrianism | Religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to their prophet. It was once the dominant religion of Iran, now its followers have diminished to less than 200,000 mostly in India and Iran. |
| Hinduism | Worlds 3rd largest religion. Most adherents from India and Nepal. Beliefs include dharma (ethics/duties), continuing cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth, karma and yoga. |
| Hadj | The fifth pillar of Islam. Pilgrimage to Mecca. |
| 6) Ethnocentrism | beliefs of an ethnic group that their ethnicity is better |
| Universalizing | Attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one cultural or location. Ie: Christianity |
| 6) Assimilation | Process of consistent integration whereby members of an ethno-cultural group (such as immigrants, or minority groups) are "absorbed" into an established, generally larger community. This presumes a loss of many characteristics of the absorbed group. |
| 6) Longevity gap | The life expectancy gap between males and female. Ex. Marriage increases longevity of men but decreases longevity of women and the gender longevity gap is smaller within couples than among singles. |
| 6) Exclave | describes a country or territory that belongs to another country but is surrounded by countries to which it has no belonging or affinity. It is usually at least partially separated from the main country, state, or political region. Ex. Alaska |
| 6) Barrio | Refers to lower-class neighborhoods. (equivalent of a "ghetto") |
| Religious culture hearth | The point of origin. For example, Southern Saudi Arabia around Mecca for Islam, Jerusalem/Bethlehem for Christianity and Northeast India for Buddhism. |
| Cargo cult pilgrimage | Belief western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia and is important because it’s a big religious movement by a large number of people. |
| 6) Gender | classification of sex |
| Proselytic religion | -Referred to in use with Universalizing Religions
-To try to convert another person to ones religion |
| Muslim population | -Distributed in Central Asia, Northern Africa and South East Asia
-1,449,765,439 - 1,513,955,647 followers
-Growing Population |
| Geomancy (feng shui) | Ancient Chinese practice believed to utilize the Laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi. The practice of arranging objects, (such as the internal placement of furniture in an environment). |
| 6) Ghetto | used to donate a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. |
| 6) Dowry death | death of young bribes who are murdered or driven to suicide by continuous harassments and torture by husband and relatives in an effort to extort dowry. Mostly occurs in South Asia. |
| 6) Maternal mortality rate | Annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births.
Ex. The number of deaths per 100,000 women in the 15-49 age group, measure the impact of maternal deaths on the population of women as a whole. |
| Christianity | a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. Largest number of adherents in the world. |
| 6) Ethnic homeland | The homeland of the ethnic groups
i.e.) the homeland of the Amish: Switzerland, Alsace, south Germany |
| 6) Gender Gap | difference between economic opportunity of man and woman. Also could refer to cultural difference in their roles. |
| Muslim Pilgrimage | Also called "Hadj". This is one of the five pillars of Islam. It is the duty of each Muslim at least once in their life to make this religious journey to Mecca. To see the Kaba at al-Harim al-Sharif. |
| Fundamentalism | A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism. |
| Animism | belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events such as thunderstorms or earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life. |
| Shintoism | It is the native religion of Japan and was once its state religion. It involves the worship of kami (a god). Not very significant anymore and lost importance to today. |
| Sikhism | Religion that began in sixteenth century in Northern India . The principal belief is faith in Vāhigurū. |
| Buddhism | one of the world’s largest universalizing religions with nearly 400 millions adherents; represented by 4 mains concepts known as the Four Noble Truths. These adherents are found mainly in China and Southeast Asia. |
