Theology and Religious Studies students can use these flash cards to study the major religions, spiritual practices and belief systems of the world.
There are 38 flash cards in this set (7 pages to print.)
To use:
1. Print out the cards.
2. Cut along the dashed lines.
3. Fold along the solid lines.
Sample flash cards in this set:
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life |
| Buddhism | the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth |
| Cargo Cult Pilgrimage | Cargo Cult's believe western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia and is important go HG because it's a big religious movement by a large number of people |
| Christianity | a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior |
| Confucianism | A philosophy that adheres to the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. It shows the way to ensure a stable government and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct. |
| 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 |
| Exclave/Enclave | A enclave is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country; an exclave is one which is geographically separated from the main part by surrounding alien territory. This is important to HG because a lot of countries are within other countries |
| Fundamentalism | the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth |
| Geomancy(feng shui) | divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) |
| Hadj | the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah |
| Hinduism | a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme beingof many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth |
| Interfaith boundaries | boundaries between the world's major faiths |
| Islam | the religion of Muslims collectively which governs their civilization and way of life |
| Jainism | religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism, a religion that branched off from Hinduism and was founded by Mahavira; its belief is that everything has a soul, and its purpose was to cleanse the soul. Some were extreme aesthetics. |
| Judaism | the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud |
| Landscapes of the dead | The certain areas where people have commonly been buried |
| Monotheism/Polytheism | Monotheism this is the belief in one god and polytheism is the belief in many gods. This affects HG because many religions spread throughout the world fall under these two categories. |
| Mormonism | A term used to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is important because a lot of people around the world practice Mormonism |
| Muslim pilgrimage | If physically and financially able, a Muslim makes a pilgrimage to Makah. (Mecca) They usually make the trip around Ramadan. This pilgrimage is also referred to as Hajj. It is important because Islam is one of the most popular religions practiced around the world. |
| Muslim population | It is the religion of 1.3 billion people in the world. It is the predominant religion of the Middle East from North Africa to Central Asia. Half of the world's Muslims live in four countries outside the Middle East: Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. It is important because Islam is one of the most popular religions practiced around the world. |
| Proselytic religion | A religion that actively seeks converts and has the goal of converting humankind |
| Reincarnation | the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions |
| Religion | a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny |
| Religious Architectural styles | These are the styles of architecture created by the religions. For example, Christians have always made temples, and Buddhists have always made a lot of religious statues. This is important to human geography because these styles affected most of the future styles for other civilizations. |
| Religious conflict | This is the conflicts between religions. One of these is Israel-Palestine. This consists of Roman Takeovers, Muslim conquests, and the crusades. This affects human geography because there has been a lot of bloodshed over Religious Conflict. |
| Religious culture hearth | This is where most religions are born. Most major religions have come from the Middle East near Israel, but a few have come from India too. This is important to human geography because where religions are created, civilizations are too. |
| Religious toponym | This refers to the origin and meaning of the names of religions. This is important to HG because many names mean significant things including beliefs of cultures. |
| Sacred Space | place or space people infuse with religious meaning |
| Secularism | The view that the present well-being of mankind should predominate over religious considerations in civil or public affairs |
| Shamanism | an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans |
| Sharia law | the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed |
| Shintoism | Religion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship |
| Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam |
| Sunni/Shia | Sunni- A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad Shia- the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad |
| Taoism | philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events |
| Theocracy | government run by religious leaders |
| Universalizing | Religions that 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. |
| Zoroastrianism | dual gods of equal power to form early monotheism; Persian; cosmic struggle over good and bad; those that do good go to heaven and bad go to hell; influenced Judaism and Christianity |
