AP Human Fall Final 2021

The largest universalizing religion is

• Hinduism

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Christianity

A religion that is spacially widespread and inclusive of all people is what type?

• folk

• animistic

• universalizing

• ethnic

Adherents are born into the faith and converts are not actively sought. Spatially concentrated, except for Judaism. EX) traditional religions in Africa and SA. Judaism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shintoism

• animistic religion

• ethnic religion

• Zoroastrianism

• Confucianism

A number of local congregations united in a single legal and administrative body is a

• branch

• sect

• family

• denomination

Who is the founder of Buddhism?

• Siddhartha Gautama

• Guru Nanak

• Dalai Lama

• Confucius

The largest branch of Islam, to which as many as 80 percent of all Muslims belong, is called __________?

• Dravidian

• Shia

• Meccan

• Sunni

When a religion combines beliefs from several religious traditions.

• syncretic

• synchronized

• spiritist

• animistic

What is monotheism?

• The belief or worship of more than one god.
• The belief of the existence of only one god.
• The belief that objects or natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life.
• The belief that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body/form after death.

How did Christianity first diffuse from Israel?

• contagious diffusion

• relocation diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

• expansion diffusion

An ethnic religion typically has a less-widespread distribution becasue

• adherents no longer undertake pilgrimages to sacred sites

• globalization has led to the abandonment of their hearth

• their sacred places are tied to the physical geography of a particular landscape

• urban growth has destroyed many of their holy places