CH6: Religion PART II

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Animism -- a collection of beliefs widely practiced across Sub-Saharan Africa -- is the belief that:

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inanimate objects and natural events have spirits.

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

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dispersed around the world.

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The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city:

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where Jews were forced to move.

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Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion, primarily because: its main holidays related to events in the life of its founder, Abraham., it uses a lunar calendar., the holy text is the foundation of the religion., its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle uniquely found in Israel.

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its rituals derive from the agricultural cycle uniquely found in Israel.

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Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are: animism, cosmogony, monotheism, astronomy.

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cosmogony.

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Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar?

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Judaism

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A mosque differs from a church, because a mosque:

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is not a sanctified space.

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Worship in Hinduism is most likely to take place: in a holy shrine., as part of a pilgrimage., at home., in a pagoda.

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at home.

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Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years? Options: Sikhism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity.

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Islam

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Christianity first diffused from its hearth in modern-day Israel/Palestine through:

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relocation diffusion.