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AP Human Geography – Mr. Horas
Chapter Six: Religion (Pages 184 – 223)
Introduction: (Page 191)
1.
What two questions about religion do
geographers try to answer?
1a.
1b.
2.
Why do geographers find the tensions
between globalization and local diversity
especially acute in religion? (Give three
reasons.)
2a.
2b.
2c.
Key Issue #1: Where Are Religions Distributed (187)
Before You Read: What religions try to
spread their teachings to other parts of the
world? How do they go about doing this?
BYR:
1.
Explain how universalizing religions differ
from ethnic religions.
1.
2.
Identify each of the following
a. Religious Branch
2a.
b. Religious Denomination
2b.
c. Religious Sect
2c.
Universalizing Religions
3.
Name the three universalizing religions.
4.
Name the three main branches of
Christianity, their percentages and
locations:
5.
Describe the geographic locations of
the following religions in the USA.
3.
a. Roman Catholic:
5a.
b. Baptist
5b.
c. Methodist
5c.
6.
Describe the geographic location of
Islam:
6.
7.
Name the 2 branches of Islam, their
percentages and locations:
8.
Describe the Nation of Islam and its
origins.
8.
9.
Indicate the number of Buddhists.
9.
10. Name the two main branches of
Buddhism and their location.
11. Name two other universalizing religions,
their number of followers and locations.
Ethnic Religions
12. Indicate the number of Hindus and their
location.
13. Where are each of the following ethnic
religions practiced and what is unique
about each of them.
a. Confucianism:
b. Daoism (Taoism)
12.
13a.
13b.
c. Shintoism:
13c.
d. Judaism
13d.
14. Explain three reasons why Judaism plays
a large role in Western civilization.
14a.
14b.
14c.
15. Explain animism, where it is practiced
and how many people practice it.
15a.
15b.
15c.
After you read: In a sentence, write a main
idea that answers the key issue question
posed.
AYR:
Key Issue #2: Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? (Page 194)
Before You Read: Why Are some religions
spread all over the world while others like
Hinduism are found only in a few places?
BYR:
1.
Briefly describe the origins of the three
main branches of Christianity.
2.
Briefly describe the origins of Islam and
its two main branches.
2.
3.
Briefly describe the origins of Buddhism.
3.
4.
Briefly describe the origins of Hinduism.
4.
5.
Explain how each of the following
universalizing religions diffused.
a. Christianity
5a.
b. Islam
5b.
c. Buddhism
5c.
6.
Why haven’t ethnic religions spread
(diffused) very widely?
6.
7.
Give an example of how have an ethnic
religion has interacted with a
universalizing relilgion.
7.
8.
Why is Judaism an exception to most
ethnic religions?
8.
9.
Contrast the significance of holy places in
universalizing and ethnic religions. In
other words, in general, how are holy
places different?
9.
10. Define pilgrimage.
10.
11. List two places holy to Buddhists and
explain why each one is considered holy.
11a.
11b.
12. List two places holy to Muslims and
explain why each one is considered holy.
12a.
12b.
13. List two places holy to Hindus and
explain why each one is considered holy.
13a.
13b.
14. Define cosmogony.
14.
15. Contrast the cosmogony of a
universalizing religion with that of an
ethnic religion.
15.
16. Contrast the role of the calendar in
universalizing and ethnic religions.
16.
After you read: In a sentence, write a main
idea that answers the key issue question
posed.
AYR:
Key Issue #3: Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Patterns?
Before You Read: Have you ever been in a
synagogue, mosque or church? What is the
purpose of one of these?
1.
2.
BYR:
Describe the purpose of places of
worship in each of the following religions:
a. Christianity
1a.
b. Islam
1b.
c. Hinduism
1c.
d. Buddhism
1d.
e. Bahai’
1e.
Give two examples of how geography
has affected burial practices.
2a.
2b.
3.
Name a religion that cremates the dead.
Why do they do this?
3.
4.
What is a utopian settlement? Why do
they have a difficult time surviving?
4a.
4b.
5.
Contrast a hierarchical religion to an
autonomous religion. List three
differences.
5a.
5b.
5c.
Key Issue #4: Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups? (212)
Before You Read: Can you think of any place
in the world where two religious groups are in
conflict? What are they fighting about?
BYR:
1.
What is religious fundamentalism?
1.
2.
Explain three of the following conflicts:
a. Taliban vs. Western Values
2a.
b. Hinduism vs. Social Equality
2b.
3.
c. Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Islam
vs. the Soviet Union
2c.
d. Buddhism vs. Southeast Asian
countries
2d.
Explain the following religious wars in the
Middle East:
a. Crusade between Christians &
Muslims
3a.
b. Jews vs. Muslims in Palestine
3b.
c. Protestants vs. Catholics in Ireland
3c.
After you read: In a sentence, write a main idea
that answers the key issue question posed.
AYR: