AP Human Geography Vocab. 6

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Belief that God's existence can't be proven empirically.

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Agnosticism

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Belief that objects (plants, stones) or events (thunderstorms, earthquakes) have a spirit and conscious life.

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Animism

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Belief that God does not exist.

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Atheism

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A religion without central authority, sharing ideas informally.

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Autonomous Religion

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A large division within a religion.

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Branch

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Class or hereditary order assigned to a Hindu by religious law.

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Caste

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Local assembly for religious worship.

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Congregation

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Religious beliefs about the universe's origin.

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Cosmogony

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A division of a branch uniting local congregations into a legal and administrative body.

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Denomination

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A religion with a concentrated spatial distribution based on local physical characteristics.

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Ethnic Religion