Which is a common characteristic of an ethnic religion?

appealing mostly to one group of people in one place

based on belief in one particular spiritual leader

younger than a universalizing religion

more peaceful than a universalizing religion

Use Figure 6-1 to answer the question. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding religious adherents among the world's population?

less than one-fifth of the people are non-religious

more than half of the people are nonreligious

more than half of the people are Christian

about half of the people are Muslim

about two-thirds of the people are Christian

Use Figure 6-1 to answer the question. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding religious adherents among the world's population?

There are more Muslims than Hindus.

About half of the people are nonreligious.

There are more Catholics than Muslims.

There are more Muslims than Christians.

There are more Buddhists than Hindus.

Use Figure 6-3: Most Numerous Religions by Region to answer the question. Which statement about religion in Latin America is TRUE?

nearly all of the people are Christian

the great majority of the people are non-religious

nearly all of the people practice folk religions

the population is almost equally divided between Christians and Muslims

about one- fourth of the people are Christian, one- fourth non-religious, and the remainder practice folk religions

Use Figure 6-3 to answer the question. Which statement accurately describes the distribution of religions throughout the world?

The percentage of Muslims in Southeast Asia is higher than the percentage of Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa.

Europe has a higher percentage of Christians than Latin America.

There is a higher percentage of Hindus in South Asia than the percentage of Christians in subSaharan Africa.

East Asia has a highest percentage of Buddhists in the world

Unaffiliated comprises over half of the religions in Europe.

Use Figure 6-3 to answer the question. Almost 90 percent of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to

Fundamentalist and nondenominational Christian churches.

Use Figure 6-4 to answer the question. Which statement is TRUE regarding the distribution of religions and branches in Europe?

northwestern Europe is mostly Protestant

most of the people in Ireland are Protestant

most of the people in the eastern part of Europe are Catholic

about half of the people in Europe are Catholic and half are Protestant

about one-fourth of the people are Protestant

Use Figure 6-4 to answer the question. Which statement is TRUE regarding the distribution of religions in Germany?

Catholics are the majority in the west and southeast, while Protestants are the majority in the north.

Catholics are the majority in the north, while Protestants are the majority in the west and southeast.

the majority are nonreligious in the center and north, while Catholics are the majority in the south.

Protestants account for the majority in every region of the country.

Catholics are the majority throughout the country.

Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding historically black churches in the United States?

they developed unique forms of worship distinct from other churches

they were founded by escaped slaves

they were integrated into existing white churches in the south after 1800

they evolved into a new religion that is not considered Christian

they chose to have different churches that used African languages

Which statement best reflects the distribution of Christians in North America?

Evangelical Protestants are most numerous in the Southeast.

The Methodist Church is a minority branch within the Mainline Protestant Church.

Roman Catholics make up 21 percent of the population in the Southwest.

Members of the Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are clustered in the South.

The Southern Baptist Convention is the most numerous Catholic Church.

Most Buddhist religious functions are performed by

government designated teachers.

Compared to other universalizing religions, which unique characteristic of Buddhism makes its adherents more difficult to count?

Buddhists may be practicing Buddhism along with another religion

most rituals are performed in secret

Buddhism was illegal for centuries and adherents feared retribution

Buddhists attend services in remote mountainous villages

governments of Buddhist majority countries do not provide religious data to outsiders

Unlike other universalizing religions, Buddhism

remains primarily concentrated in one region of the world.

was not begun by an individual founder and then diffused elsewhere.

diffused primarily by colonization.

The largest percentage of Muslims living in the United States are from which region?

Pakistan and other South Asian countries

China and other East Asian countries

Arab countries of Southwest Asia

Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries

Use Figure 6-5 to answer the question. In which of the following regions are Sunni Muslims clustered?

Western Asia, North Africa, parts of South Asia, and East Africa.

Southwestern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of South Asia.

Southwestern Asia, North Africa, South America, and parts of North America.

Eastern Europe, North America, South Asia, and parts of Russia, China, and Japan.

East Asia, South Asia, and North Africa.

France's growing Muslim population is largely a result of

emigration from former French colonies.

French policy to encourage diversification.

French policy to attract guest workers.

emigration from Southwest Asian countries.

French policy to encourage equal representation of religions.

Which statement is TRUE regarding the distribution of ethnic religions?

Adherents to an ethnic religion typically have a shared history, culture, and language.

Ethnic religions are typically more wide-spread than universalizing religions.

Ethnic religions diffuse from one culture to another.

Adherents to an ethnic religion tend to migrate away from where the religion was founded.

Ethnic religions may be clustered because they are surrounded by universalizing religions.

Which of the following is true of both universalizing and ethnic religions?

They can diffuse to different populations around the world.

They appeal primarily to one group of people living in one place.

They attempt to be global and appeal to all people.

Examples can be expressed as Christianity and Islam.

They both arose from changes in the physical environment.

Followers of primal indigenous ethnic religions do NOT

believe everything is spiritual.

believe in narratives that are specific to a physical landscape.

invoke shamanistic spirits to affect the lives of the living.

generally live in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

Animism can be defined as

the belief that inanimate objects and natural events have a discrete spirit and conscious life.

the desire to change the world based on reverence towards all mammals.

a combined reverence for mammals and birds.

the belief that cows are animated and sacred.

another term for vegetarianism.

Which of the following statements describes the changes to religious affiliation in Africa?

Universalizing religions have replaced traditional folk religions in much of the continent.

Since 1900, Islam has continued to expand territory and gain adherents in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Traditional folk religions are experiencing a resurgence in response to universalizing religions.

The number of folk religionists still follows an even distribution pattern across the continent.