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Monotheism
The belief in a single, all-powerful deity.
Pilgrimage
A journey to a sacred place for religious reasons.
Polytheism
The belief in multiple deities.
Reincarnation
The belief that the soul is reborn into a new body after death.
Syncretic
The blending of different religious beliefs and practices.
Universalizing Religion
A religion that seeks to convert non-believers and spread its beliefs globally.
Multiculturalism
The coexistence of diverse cultures in a society.
Adherents
Individuals who follow a particular religion or belief system.
Postmodern Architecture
A style of architecture that emerged in the late 20th century, characterized by a departure from modernist principles.
Secular
Not connected with religious or spiritual matters.
Cultural Relativism
The practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of another culture.
Ethnocentrism
The belief in the superiority of one's own culture over others.
Cultural Hearth
A geographic area where cultural traits develop and from which they diffuse.
Sikhism
A monotheistic religion founded in the Punjab region of India in the 15th century.
Cultural Landscape
The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.
Sequent Occupancy
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
Buddhism
A religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha.
Judaism
The monotheistic religion of the Jewish people, based on the Hebrew Bible.
Christianity
A monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Hinduism
A major world religion originating in the Indian subcontinent, characterized by a variety of beliefs and practices.
Islam
A monotheistic religion founded on the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad.
Place-Making
The process of creating quality places that people want to live, work, play, and learn in.
Proselytizing Religion
A religion that actively seeks to convert others to its faith.
Acculturation
The process of cultural change and adaptation that occurs when individuals from one culture come into contact with another culture.
Adaptation
The process of adjusting to new conditions or environments.
Assimilation
The process by which individuals or groups adopt the cultural traits of another group.
Cultural identity
The identity or feeling of belonging to a group based on shared culture.
Creolized language/Crealization
A stable, fully developed language that has evolved from a mixture of different languages.
Custom
A traditional and widely accepted way of behaving or doing something specific to a particular society, place, or time.
Dialect
A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
Folk culture
The traditional practices, customs, and beliefs of a specific group of people.
Habit
A regular practice or routine that is often automatic.
Isogloss
A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.
Isolated language
A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not part of a language family.
Language
A system of communication used by a particular community or country.
Language branch
A group of languages that share a common origin but have since evolved into distinct languages.
Language family
A group of languages that are related through descent from a common ancestor.
Language group
A set of languages within a language family that share a more recent common ancestor.
Lingua franca
A language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
Material culture
The physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture.
Monolingual
The ability to speak only one language.
Multilingual
The ability to speak multiple languages.
Non-material culture
The intangible aspects of a culture, such as beliefs, values, and norms.
Official language
The language that is given a special legal status in a particular country or region.
Pidgin language
A simplified form of speech that develops as a means of communication between speakers of different languages.
Placelessness
The loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next.
Popular culture
The set of ideas, practices, and phenomena that are prevalent in mainstream society.
Standard language
The form of a language that is accepted as the norm or standard.
Taboo
A social or cultural prohibition against certain practices or discussions.
Autonomous Religion
A religion that does not have a central authority and is self-governing.
Branch
A large and fundamental division within a religion.
Denomination
A recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church.
Ethnic Religion
A religion that is closely tied to a specific ethnic group.
Hierarchical Religion
A religion with a well-defined structure of authority and organization.
Missionary
An individual who is sent on a mission to promote a religion.
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