Unit 6: Religion

For many people on Earth, religion serves as a source of...

• key values and beliefs

• ethnic identification

• material culture

• literary tradition

• popular culture

Religion is a particularly good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity because...

• migrants leave their religion behind when they migrate to a new area

• many people follow more than one religion

• all religions are in competition to convert as many people as possible

• religion represents core cultural values and beliefs that may conflict with others

The predominant religion in Latin America is...

• Islam

• Catholicism

• Protestantism

• Animism

• Eastern Orthodoxy

An ethnic religion is...

• based on only one language

• appealing mostly to one group of people in one place

• based on belief in one particular spiritual leader

• younger than a universalizing religion

A universalizing religion...

• is based on the physiacal characteristics of a particular location on Earth

• appeals to people living in a wide variety of locations

• is rarely transmitted through missionaries

• has celebrations based on seasonal changes

• is less likely to be used as a reason for violence that ethnic religions

The world's largest universalizing religion is...

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Islam

• Shintoism

Which characteristic distinguishes religion in Latin America from North America?

• having a Roman Catholic majority

• having a protestant majority

• location relative to the Equator

• Ethnic religions make up the majority in one but not the other

The world's largest ethnic religion is...

• Confucianism

• Daoism

• Hinduism

• Shintoism

• Islam

Which of the following is not a universalizing religion?

• Buddhism

• Sikhism

• Islam

• Judaism

• Christianity

Muslims are clustered in...

• sub-Saharan Africa

• South America

• estern Europe

• eastern Asia

• north Africa and Southwest Asia