UNIT 6️⃣AP HUG VOCAB + OTHER IMPORTANT INFO

Atheism

Don’t believe a God Exist

Example atheist

Agnosticism

Unknown about beliefs of God or

Example, June Foley

Universalizing religions

Welcome anyone to join, attractive to the world population

Examples, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

Ethnic religions

Relate closely to culture heritage, physical, geography, born into

Example Judaism

Congregation

Local people coming together to worship

Example me going to church

Branch versus Sects

Branch equals bigger

Sects equals smaller offshoots

Examples of branch catholic, protestant, Eastern Orthodox

Examples of sects Jehovah’s Witness

Syncretic

Fusion of new religion from other religions

Examples blend of African traditional religions with Christianity

Animism

Believe that everything has spirit or consciousness

Example, Buddhism and Hinduism

Shamanism

Person who interacts with spirits through rituals

Examples priests

Monotheism

Believe in one God/power

Example, examples Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Polytheism

Belief and more than one god

Example, Hinduism and Buddhism and African religions

Missionaries

A person sent on a religious mission

Examples me going to Alaska

Ghettos

Neighborhood set up by law only for Jews to segregate them

Secularism

Separating the government from religion, treating equally

Examples war in Israel

Minarets

Tall, thin tower. Part of mosque, with balcony. Calls Muslims to prayer.

Cosmogony

Religions belief about how earth was made

Example Christianity me

pilgrimage

sacred journey to place for spiritual/religious purpose

examples Hindi’s going to Ganges River

Ka’ba

Holy site for Islam

Utopian settlement

Community built to reflect religious groups

Example Jews

Autonomous religions

Religions that keep to themselves, don’t talk to anyone outside of their community

Example local ones in Islam

Hierarchical religion

Well defined geographic structure, on local grounds

Example, Roman Catholics

Solar calendar

Goes with seasons or son

Example Mayan, Aztec

Lunar calendar

Goes with the moon phases

Examples christianity Buddhism, Judaism Islam, Hinduism

Sacred sites

Locations that have significance to religion group

Example Bodh Gaya is a city for Buddhism

Hajj

Yearly journey to holy sight

Example Muslims go to Mecca

Fundamentalism

Strict follow on sacred text

Example, Christianity oppose LGBT rights

Caste

Bubble of power that you were born into

Example Hinduism

Diaspora

Large group of people who share culture/religion origin, but are living away from homeland

Example Jews

Sunni vs Shiite

Sunni: elected by community

Shiite: blood relative

Interfaith boundaries

Division between worlds major religions

Example Muslims versus Jews

Intrafaith boundaries

Division of single religion

Example, Sunni and Shia in Islamic faith

Zionism

Moment to re-create a Jewish presence in Israel