Chapter 6 Review

The spatial distribution of religions is important to geographers because it helps to determine

• how many people follow a certain religion at multiple locations.

• whether or not people adhere to their religion after they migrate.

• how certain religions are dispersed over wide areas while others are clustered.

• how often people practice their religion.

• how long it will take for folk religions to diffuse from their original location.

The universalizing religion with the most adherents worldwide is

• Buddhism.

• Christianity.

• Hinduism.

• Islam.

• Shintoism.

Which of the following would NOT be included among the world's four largest religions in terms of the number of adherents?

• Christianity

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Judaism

• Islam

Chinese traditional and African traditional represent which type of religion?

• unaffiliated

• universalizing

• ethnic

• folk

• syncretic

Which of the following belief systems states that the existence of God cannot be proven empirically?

• Agnosticism

• Atheism

• Unaffiliation

• Assimilation

• Amalgamation

The ethnic religion which has the most adherents worldwide is

• Confucianism.

• Taoism.

• Hinduism.

• Shintoism.

• Islam.

A classification of a religion that is spatially widespread and philosophically inclusive of all potential adherents is described as

• universalizing.

• folk.

• ethnic.

• tribal.

• animistic.

Which of the following is an ethnic religion?

• Buddhism

• Bahá'í

• Islam

• Judaism

• Christianity

Which is a common characteristic of an ethnic religion?

• 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

• more peaceful than a universalizing religion

Which of the following is considered a branch of Christianity?

• Druze

• Eastern Orthodox

• Shi'ite

• Theravadist

• Judaism