Cultural Geography - Religion

Preliminary Questions 1

• Religion
  • existence of a higher power, spirits or gods
  • an explanation of the origins & purpose of humans and their role on Earth
  • ritual, festivals, rites of passage and space (religious landscapes)

Key Terms:

• Universalizing Religion - attemps to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
  

• Ethnic Religion -concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely based on physical characteristics of a particular location
  
  
• Monotheism - existence of only 1 god
  
  
• Polytheism - existence of many gods
  
  
• Cosmogony -a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
  
  
• Branch - a large and fundamental division within a branch of religion
  
  
• Denomination - a division within a branch of a religion
  
  
• Sect - a relatively small denominational group that has broken away from an established church
  

• Origin & Diffusion
  
  
• Basic Precepts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Branches
  
  
  • Catholicism
    
    
    
    
    
    
  • Protestantism
    
    
    
    
    
    
  • Eastern Orthodoxy
    
    
    
    
    

• Origin & Diffusion
  
  
  
• Branches
  
  
  
• Basic Precepts
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 5 Pillars
  
  
  

• Origin & Diffusion
  
  
  
• Branches
  
  
  
  
• Basic Precepts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Origin & Diffusion
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Basic Precepts
  
  
  
  

• Holy Places
  
  

• Origin & Diffusion
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Basic Precepts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Confucianism
  
  
  
• Daoism
  
  
  
• Shintoism
  
  

• Sacred Structures & Sites (photos)
  
  
  
  
• Where are Holy Places?