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| Animism | Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a descrete spirit and concious life |
| Autonomous Religion | A religion that does not have a central authority but share ideas and cooperates informally |
| Branch | A large and fundamental division within a religion |
| Caste | Class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu is assigned according to religious law |
| Cosmogony | A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe |
| Denomination | A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations in a single legal and administrative body |
| Diocese | Basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church |
| Ethnic Religion | A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the parcticular location in which its adherents are concentrated |
| Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect) |
| 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 |
| Hierarchical Religion | A religion in which a central authority excercises a high degree of control |
| Missionary | An individual who helps to diffuse a universalizing religion |
| Monotheism | Doctrine or belief of the existence of only one god |
| Pagan | A follower of a polytheistic religion in ancient times |
| Pilgrimage | A journey to a place concidered sacred for religious purposes |
| Polytheism | Belief in, or worship of, more than one god |
| Sect | A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination |
| Solistice | Time when the Sun is farthest from the equator |
| Universal Religion | A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a particular location |
