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1) With respect to the relationship between culture, religion, and the physical environment
___________________________________ may be responsible for some of the changes people make
in the physical environment.
2) In Tibet its __________________________________ is in exile and the present
_________________________ discourages observance.
3) Religion is a particularly good example of the tension between globalization and local diversity
because ______________________ represents core cultural values and beliefs that may
______________________ with others.
4) A large and fundamental division within a religion is a ______________________________.
5) An ethnic religion is appealing mostly to ___________________________________ of people in
_____________________ place.
6) A relatively small group that has broken away from an established church is a ____________.
7) A universalizing religion is or appeals to __________________________________________
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8) The world's largest universalizing religion is _______________________________________.
9) The world's largest ethnic religion is _____________________________________________.
10) What are the branches of Christianity? ___________________________________________
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11) Almost 90 percent of people in the Western Hemisphere claim adherence to _____________
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12) What characteristic(s) distinguish(es) religion in Latin America from North America?______
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13) Baptists are clustered in the ________________________________________ United States.
14) Lutherans are clustered in the ______________________________________ United States.
15) Roman Catholics are clustered in the _________________________________ United States.
16) Roman Catholics are clustered in the U.S. southwest primarily because of migration of
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17) Which of the following is not a universalizing religion? ___________________________
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18) Eastern Orthodoxy is an example of a Christian __________________________________.
19) Lutheranism is an example of a Christian _______________________________________.
20) What region of the world will we find Muslims clustered? __________________________
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21) The dominant branch of Islam is _______________________________________________.
22) The dominant branch of Islam in Iran is _________________________________________.
23) What is the holiest book in Hinduism? ___________________________________________.
24) What are the similarities and differences between the Mahayanists and the Theravadists?
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25) Adherents of which religion are also likely to believe in other religions simultaneously?
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26) What do Animists believe? ____________________________________________________
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27) Which Asian religions are ethnic and which are not ethnic? __________________________
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28) What concepts are especially important in Confucianism? ____________________________
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29) What concepts are especially important in Daoism? _________________________________
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30) A. What is polytheism? B. Animism? Cosmogony? Monotheism? Pagan? Atheist? ________
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31) Followers of which religious branch(es) do not trace their origin to Abraham? ____________
32) Judaism is classified as an ethnic rather than a universalizing religion, primarily because ___
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33) Christianity first diffused from its hearth through ___________________________diffusion.
34) Adherents of which religion controlled much of present-day Spain until 1492, but not since then?
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35) Which of the following is currently the most important religion in the homeland of the man who
founded it? ________________________________________________________________
36) Unlike other universalizing religions, ____________________________ remained concentrated
in one region of the world.
37) The agricultural calendar is relatively unimportant to which type of religions? ____________
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38) For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been A) highly clustered in present-day Israel
or B) dispersed around the world? (Circle the correct answer)
39) The concept of a ghetto originally referred to the area of a city ________________________
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40) Beliefs concerning the origin of the universe are called _____________________________.
41) Which ethnic religion follows a lunar calendar? ___________________________________.
42) The people of Quebec are distinguished from residents of neighboring Canadian provinces and
the United States because they _________________________________________________
43) What are the characteristics of a hierarchical religion?_______________________________
44) A mosque differs from a church, because a mosque _________________________________
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45) Worship in Hinduism is most likely to take place __________________________________.
46) Cremation is more important than burial in which religion? ___________________________
47) Describe the dispersal pattern of Protestants in Ireland? ______________________________
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49) Explain Hinduism's caste system: _______________________________________________
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50) The United Nations partition plan dividing Palestine placed Jerusalem under _____________
_________________________________________________________________ administration.
51) What are the causes of the situation in Northern Ireland? ____________________________
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52) Palestinians include which groups? ______________________________________________
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53) Israel has controlled all of Jerusalem since what event in what year? ___________________
54) Adherents of which religion have controlled the Holy Land for most of the past 1,500 years?
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55) Why does Jerusalem's geography represents a particularly difficult religious conflict to resolve?
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56) What are the three most important religions in Lebanon? _____________________________
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57) What penalties were imposed by the Taliban in Afghanistan? _________________________
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58) The barrier between Israel and the West Bank has been ruled as _______________________ by
both Israeli and international courts.
59) What policy did the British follow in India? _______________________________________
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60) From the Russian Revolution to the fall of the communist government, what was the policy of
the government towards religion? ________________________________________________
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61) True or False. Individual ethnic religions generally have more concentrated geographic
distributions than universalizing religions.
62) True or False. Christianity has the most widespread geographic distribution of any religion.
63) True or False. Lutherans in the United States are concentrated in the southeast.
64) True or False. Catholics in the United States are concentrated in the northeast and southwest.
65) True or False. Buddhism is the most important religion in India.
66) True or False. Pilgrimages play a significant role in ethnic religions but not in universalizing
religions.
67) True or False. The largest concentration of Eastern Orthodox Christians is in Eastern Europe.
68) True or False. The Ganges is the most holy river for Muslims.
69) True or False. Jerusalem is a holy city to all three major universalizing religions.
70) True or False. Islam is a less hierarchical religion than Christianity.
71) True or False. Like churches, mosques are consecrated as holy places.
72) True or False. Natural landscape features are the holiest places in Islam.
73) True or False. The most troublesome religious boundary in Western Europe is in Ireland.
74) True or False. The majority of people in Lebanon are Jewish.
75) True or False. After the 1917 Revolution, the communists closed all churches in the Soviet
Union.
76) True or False. What is the world's largest ethnic religion? In what country do 99 percent of the
adherents of this religion live?
77) Most Europeans adhere to which of the three major universalizing religions? ____________
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78) Name the two main branches of Islam. ___________________________________________
79) Name the four religions dominant in East Asia. ____________________________________
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80) How is religious adherence different in East Asia than in the United States? _____________
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80) Which branch of Islam is the largest in Iran and Lebanon? ___________________________
81) Describe the main difference in the most important holidays between a universalizing and an
ethnic religion. _________________________________________________________________
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82) What major universalizing religion originated in present-day India? ____________________
Match the religion to the U.S. state in which it is most likely to be found.
A) Alabama
B) Montana
C) Arizona
D) Minnesota
E) Utah
83) Baptist ____________________________________________________________________
84) Roman Catholic _____________________________________________________________
85) Lutheran___________________________________________________________________
86) Mormon ___________________________________________________________________
87) A. Most people in the Republic of Ireland are adherents of which branch of Christianity?
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B. A slight majority of people in Northern Ireland are adherents of which branch of Christianity?
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88) Wars were fought in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973 in the land once known as Palestine.
A. What country won all four of these wars? _________________________________________
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B. What three countries fought against this country in all four wars? _______________________
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C. Which one of these three countries signed a peace treaty with the first country named? ________
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