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Which of the following sacred places is most closely associated with animism?
Hagia Sophia
Ayers Rock
Sistine Chapel
Mecca
The Western Wall
The Mormon church located in a rural area of northwestern Colorado is most likely the result of which kind of diffusion?
Expansion
Relocation
Hierarchical
Maladaptive
Stimulus
The minaret is an architectural feature common to places of worship in which of the following religions?
Buddhism
Hinduism
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Which of the following religions did NOT originate in the Indian subcontinent?
Buddhism
Jainism
Sikhism
Hinduism
Zoroastrianism
Zionism is best defined as the ____________________
Shinto ritual purification involving ceremonial offerings and prayers.
Islamic Custom of pilgrimage to Mecca that must be undertaken at least once during every follower's lifetime.
Mormon right of passage that involves a two-year mission of service.
Confucian doctrine that urges respect for one's elders.
Jewish claim to Palestine as their rightful national homeland.
Which of the following is a sacred place in the Hindu religion?
Dead Sea
Ganges River
Mount Fuji
Shara Desert
Tierra del Fuego
All of the following are traits common to Muslim religions of the world EXCEPT ___________.
fasting
pilgimage
Sharia law
polytheism
daily ritual prayers
In Islam the religious practice of "sacred struggle" is known as:
hajj
Ramadan
jihad
Shabbart
brahmacharya
The concept of nirvana is most closely associated with which of following religions?
Confucianism
Islam
Animism
Judaism
Buddhism
Which of the following culture regions of the United States has the strongest historical connections to Lutheran Christian traditions?
The Rocky Mountains
New England
The Upper Midwest
The South
The Pacific Northwest
The term caste refers to a particular system of social stratification that is informed by which of the following religions?
Buddhism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Taoism
Islam
Shinto, a set of rituals and customs that are practiced in order to connect with ancient spirts, is a religious tradition that belongs to which of the following nations?
Japan
China
Nepal
Bolivia
Tibet
The largest branch of Islam, to which as many as 80 percent of all Muslims belong, is called __________?
Dravidian
Shia
Meccan
Berber
Sunni
An urban ethnic enclave that is held together by external forces of discrimination and marginalization, as well as by internal forces of community identity and ethnic solidarity is known as a(n) _____________?
exclave
ghetto
gated community
commune
isogloss
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