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- Missionary
- An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion
- Pilgrimage
- A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes
- Hierarchical religion
- A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
- Caste
- The class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law
- Universalizing religion
- A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location
- Polytheism
- Belief in or worship of more than one god. Popular culture Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
- Ethnic religion
- A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated
- Autonomous religion
- A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally
- Diocese
- The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church
- Sect
- A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
- Animism
- Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life
- Cosmogony
- A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
- Denomination
- A division of a branch that ur1ites a number of local
- Ghetto
- During the middle Ages, a neighborhood in a city set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews; now used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure
- Pagan
- follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times. Pandemic Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population
- Fundamentalism
- Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect)
- Solstice
- Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator