Ch. 6 Religions Vocabulary HG

A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated.

• ethnic religion

• cosmogony

• caste

• animism

A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body.

• caste

• fundamentalism

• ghettos

• denomination

A set of beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.

• branch

• cosmogony

• atheism

• congregation

1. A local assembly of persons brought together for common religious worship.

• denomination

• congregation

• atheism

• caste

The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned, according to religious law

• agnosticism

• denomination

• caste

• congregation

A large and fundamental division within a religion.

• branch

• tree

• caste

• fundamentalism

1. A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally.

• hierarchical religion

• ethnic religion

• fundamentalism

• autonomous religion

The belief that God does not exist.

• cosmogony

• atheism

• animism

• agnosticism

The belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.

• animism

• agnostacism

• atheism

• cosmogony

The belief that the existence of God can’t be proven or disproven empirically.

• fundamentalism

• atheism

• agnosticism

• animism