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| Sikhism | a sect of Hinduism |
| Sunni | Largest branch of Islam, believe in the effectiveness of family and community in the solution of life's problems. |
| Shiites/Shia | A division of Islam, represent the Persian variation, believe in the infallibility and divine right to authority of the Imams, descendants of Ali. |
| Taoism | Founded by Lao-Tsu that focuses on the proper form of political rule and on the oneness of humanity and nature. |
| Theocracy | A state whose government is under the control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided, or of a group of religious leaders |
| Universalizing | A belief system that espouses the idea that there is one true religion that is universal in scope. |
| Zoroastrianism | The religion states that active participation in life through good thoughts, good words and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. |
| Religious architectural styles | These are the styles of architecture created by the religions. |
| Religious Culture Hearth | This is where most religions are born. This is important to Human Geography because where religions are created, civilizations are too. |
| Religious Conflict | This is the conflict between religions. This affects Human Geograohy because there has been a lot of bloodshed over this. |
| Religious toponym | This refers to the origin and meaning of the names of religions. This is important to Human Geography because many names mean significant things including beliefs of cultures. |
| Sacred Space | Place or space that people infuse with religious meaning |
| 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. |
| Shamanism | Community faith in traditional societies in which people follow a religious leader, teacher, healer and visionary. |
| Sharia Law | The system of Islamic law, sometimes called Qu'ranic Law |
| Shintoism | Located in Japan, focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship |
| Hinduism | One of the oldest religions in the modern world, dating back over 4,000 years and does not have a founder, theology or agreement of its origin. |
| Interfaith Boundaries | Boundaries within a single major faith. |
| Islam | The youngest of the major world religions based on the teachings of Muhammad who received the truth directly from Allah written then in the Koran |
| Janism | Religion and philosophy orginating in ancient India that stresses spiritual independence and equality throughout all life |
| Judaism | A monotheistic, ethnic religion first developed among the Hebrew people, its determining conditions include descent from Israel, the Torah and tradition |
| Landscapes of the Dead | Religious burial areas |
| Monotheism | Belief in one god |
| Polytheism | Belief in more then one god |
| Mormonism | A term used to describe religious, ideological and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement |
| Hajj | A muslim pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah), usually around Ramadan |
| Proselytic religion | A religion that actively seeks converts and has the goal of converting all humankind |
| reincarnation | After this life you will come back in another life either as a plant, animal or a human life |
| religion | A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities |
| trade language | A language used by speakers of a different native language for communication in commercial trade |
| animism | A belief that natural objects may be the abode of dead people, spirits or gods who occasionally give the objects the appearance of life |
| Buddhism | A universalizing religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, that suffering is inherent in all life but can be relieved by mental and moral self-purification |
| Cargo Cult Pilgrimage | Cult's believe the western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. Journey takes place in Melanesia. |
| Christianity | A monotheistic, universalizing religion based on the teachings of Jesus and the Bible as sacred scripture. |
| Confucianism | A Chinese value system and ethnic religion emphasizing ethics, social morality, tradition and ancestor worship. |
| Ethnic religion | A religion identified with a particular ethnic group and largely exclusive to it. Such a religion does not seek converts. |
| Exclave | A portion of a state that is separated from the main territory and surrounded by another country |
| Enclave | A small bit of foreign territory lying within a state but not under its jurisdiction. |
| Fundamentalism | A movement to return to the founding principles of a religion, which can include literal interpretation of sacred texts, or the attempt to follow the ways of a religious founder as closely as possible |
| Geomancy | The Chinese art and science of placement and orientation of tombs, swellings, buildings and cities. Structures and objects are positioned in a effort to channel flows of sheng-chi in favorable ways. |
| Creole | Language derived from a pidgin language that has acquired a fuller vocabulary and become the native language of it speakers |
| Dialect | A distinctive local or regional variant of a language that remains mutually intelligible to speakers of other dialects of that language, s subtype of a language |
| Isogloss | the border of usage of an individual word or pronunciation |
| Language | A mutually agreed on system of symbolic communication that has a spoken and usually a written expression |
| Language Family | A group of related languages derived from common ancestor |
| Language Group | A group of languages related by descent from a common ancestor |
| Lingua Franca | An existing, well established language of communication and commerce used widely where it is not a mother tongue |
| Linguistic diversity | 5,000 to 10,000 living languages depending generally on the precision of ones definition of language |
| Monolingual | A society's or country's use of only one language of communication for all purposes |
| Multilingual | The common use of two or more languages in a society or country |
| Official Language | A governmentally designated language of instruction of government, of the courts and other official public or private communication |
| pidgin | An auxiliary language derived, with reduced vocabulary and simplified structure from other languages |
| toponymy | The place names of a region or especially the study of place names |
