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- traditional religions
- it is the opposite of mondernized, superimposed, or changed, it denotes continuity and historic association
- pagan
- a follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times
- adaptive strategy
- technology, ecology, demography, and economics that define human behavior.
- diaspora
- from the greek "to disperse: a term describing forceful or voluntary dispersal of a people from their homeland to a new place.
- Proselytic religions
- Referred to as a Universalizing Religion, which is an attempt to be global, to appeal to all people, wherever they may live in the world, not just to those of one culture or location. There are three religions that practice this they are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. To proselytize is to try to convert another person to your religion. This important to HG because these are three of the biggest religions in the world they are practiced all over the world.
- universalizing religions
- a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
- sacred spaces
- place or space people infuse with religious meaning
- monotheistic religions
- belief that there is a single God, one supreme being is revered as creator and arbiter of all that exists in the universe
- hierarchical religions
- a religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
- polytheistic religions
- belief system in which multiple deities are revered as creators and arbiters of all that exisits in the universe
- fundamentalism
- literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion
- pilgirmages
- voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to pay respects of participate in a ritual at the site
- teleology
- The study of the purpose of natural occurrences; The use of a non-natural purpose to explain an occurrence
- gaia hypothesis
- The hypothesis developed by James Lovelock that postulates that the entire biosphere is a single, self-organising, non-linear system
- syncretic religions
- syncretism: the develpment of a new form of culture trait by the fusion of two or more distinct parental elements
- interfaith boundaries
- boundries between the world's major faiths
- secularism
- the idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on earth, not to accommodate the prescriptions of a deity and promises of a comfortable afterlife
- intrafaith boundries
- boundries within a single major faith
- theocracy
- a state whose government is under the control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided
- missionaries
- people who help to difffuse a universalizing religion
- orthodox religions
- Adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion.
- animism
- a belief that natural objects may be the abode of dead people, spirits, or gods who occasinally give the objects the appearance of life
- ecotheology
- Ecotheology is a form of constructive theology that focuses on the interrelationships of religion and nature,
- ethnic religion
- a religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exclusive to it
- religion
- a system of beliefs and practices that attmps to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities