The belief that the existence of God can’t be proven Empirically.
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Universalizing Religion
A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location.
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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.
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Congregation
A local assembly of persons brought together for a common religious worship.
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Denomination
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body.
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Branch
A large and fundamental division within a religion.
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Syncretic
Combining several religious traditions.
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Animism
The belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunder storms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and concious life.
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Monotheism
The doctrine or belief in the exsistence of only one God
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Polytheism
Belief in or worship of many gods
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Missionary
An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion.
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Ghetto
During the middle ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any majority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure.
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Hierarchical Religion
A religion in which a central authority excercizes a high degree of control
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Autonomous Religion
A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates internally.
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Pilgrimage
A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.
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Caste
The class or distinct heredity order in to which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law.
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Fundamentalism
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion or a religious branch, denomination, or congregational.
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Cultural Landscape
An approach to geography that emphasizes the relationships among social and physical phenomena in a particular study area.
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Distribution
The arrangement of something across Earth’s surface
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Density
The frequency in which something exists within a given unit of area
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Concentration
The spread of something over a given area
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Pattern
The geometric or regular distribution in a given area.
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Diffusion
The process of the spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time.
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Hearth
The place where innovative ideas originate.
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Secularism
refers to attitudes, activities, etc., that aren’t religious or spiritual; not connected with religion.
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Zionism
The movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
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