Essay Questions

Compare the impact of Christianity and Islam on the landscape.

In what ways is Judaism an ethnic religion?

How do different religions incorporate natural features into their cosmogony?

How has religion been a source of territorial conflict among people?

How has the concept of pilgrimage changed in the modern world?

What is the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment?

Changes in the physical environment by people may be due to religious ideas.

Branch

A large and fundamental division within a religion

A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a

sect

A ____________________ religion appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations.

universalizing

The world’s largest universalizing religion is

Christianity.

How did Christianity spread from its hearth?

relocation diffusion

Know the branches of Christianity

Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestantism

How are Protestants in Ireland distributed?

highly clustered in one part of the island

What is the desire of most people living in Northern Ireland?

remain part of Great Britain

Why are so many Roman Catholics clustered in the southwestern United States?

migration of Roman Catholics from Latin America

Why are people from Quebec distinguished from neighboring Canadian provinces and the United States?

the use of religious toponyms

Is Judaism a universalizing religion?

no

Is Eastern Orthodoxy a denomination, sect, or a branch?

branch

Lutheranism is an example of a branch, sect, or denomination.

denomination

Where are Muslims clustered?

Northern Africa and the Middle East

Dominant branch of Islam

Sunni

Dominant branch of Islam in Iran is

Shiite.

What religion controlled much of present day Spain prior to 1492?

Islam

Which of these is the holiest book in Hinduism? The Bible, the old testament, the Amrit, the Quran

none of these

What religion is the most important in the homeland of its founder?

Islam

Why is Buddhism different than other universalizing religions?

remained concentrated in one region of the world

Contrast between Mahayanist and Theravadists

Mahayanists emphasize Buddha’s compassion

What assigns everyone to a distinct class?

Hinduism’s caste system

Followers of __________________ are most likely to believe in other religions simultaneously?

Buddhism

Those who believe that inanimate objects and natural events have spirits?

Animists

The agricultural calendar is unimportant to which type of religions?

Universalizing religion

Is Buddhism an ethnic Asian Religion?

No

The performance of public service is important in what religion found in Asia?

Confucianism

The reflection on the mystical and magical aspects of life are important in what religion found in Asia?

Daoism

monotheism

belief in one god

Followers of which of the religious branches does not trace their origin to Abraham? Judaism, Shiite, Sunni, Mahayana, and Eastern Orthodox

Mahayana

For most of the past 2,000 years the ________________ have been dispersed around the world.

Jews

Where were most Jews forced to live.

Ghetto – an area in a city

Why is Judaism classified as an ethnic rather a universalizing religion?

Its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle in Israel.

cosmogony

beliefs concerning the origin of the universe

What religion encourages each congregation to be self-sufficient?

hierarchical

Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar?

Judaism

How are mosque different from churches?

a mosque is not a sanctified place

Worship of __________________ is most likely to take place at home.

Hinduism

Cremation is very important in which religion?

Hinduism

The United Nations partition plan dividing Palestine placed Jerusalem under

United Nations administration

The conflict in Northern Ireland is a result of

Catholic protest against discrimination by Protestants, British colonial rule, violence committed by both sides, counties in Northern Ireland voting to remain in the United Kingdom.

Are Jewish citizens considered Palestinians?

No – the following groups are; Muslim citizens of Israel, residents of territories occupied by Israel, citizens of other states calling themselves Palestinians, and residents of refugee camps

When did Israel gain control of all of Jerusalem?

The Six – Day War in 1967

Followers of _________________ have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1500 years.

Islam

What religion is very important in Lebanon?

Druze

These penalties were imposed by the ________________ in Afghanistan; homosexuals were buried alive, prostitutes were hanged in public, and men were stoned for committing adultery, men were beaten for shaving their beards, and thieves’ hands were cut off, and women with nail polish had their fingers cut off.

Taliban

What policy did the British follow in India?

encouraged the abolishment of the caste system

In Russian history, what has the government policy been toward religion?

Churches remained open but played a limited role.

The world’s largest ethnic religion?

Hinduism

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