| A | B |
|---|
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| religious cultural hearth | point of origin for a religion |
| religious toponyms | religious place names |
| sacred space | place or space people infuse with religious meaning |
| secularism | a that religious considerations should be ignored |
| Sharia law | the system of islamic law, based on varying degrees of interpretation of the qu'ran |
| shintoism | native religion of Japan and was once its state religion, combining elements of Buddhism and local religions |
| 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 |
| syncretic religion | traditions that borrow from both the past & the present |
