Geography 2.2
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- Religion (3 points)
- 1.usually the part of a culture that is held onto the longest 2. Tends to be exclusive- unlike language. 3.Causes people to change landscape.
- Religion spreads by
- relocation and expansion diffusion.
- Branch
- a large and fundamental division of a religion
- Denomination
- division of a branch that unties a number of local congregations
- Sect
- a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
- Securalism
- Indifference or rejection of organized religious affiliation. Belive people can create their own moral code without the rewards of an afterlife.
- Universal Religions
- Christianity, Islam, Budddhism.
- Ethinics religions
- Hinduism, Animism, Shintoism.
- Characteristics of Universal Religions (6):
- -Individual historical founder -message diffused widely -Attempt to appeal to people throughout the world and seek converts -Simple core belief -Followers are widely distributed -Holidays based on the events of the founder's life
- Characteristics of Ethnic Religions (6):
- -Content highly concentrated in place of origin -Meaning primarily to people in a particular place -followers are highly clustered -unknown origin -grow through natural increase -holidays are based on local climate and environment
- prosylitize
- to convert or attempt to convert as a proselyte; recruit.
- Ethnic Group
- People of common ancestry and cultural tradition, living as a minority in a larger society, or host culture.
- Ethnic Traits (6)
- Religion (Jewish), Place of Origin (Palestinian), language (Korean American), politics (Cuban refugees), folk culture (amish), shared history (gypsies).
- Indigenous population
- some groups were made ethn ic after losing autonomy to another group (Welsh/Navajo)
- Migrants
- most ethnic groups arose as a result of migration from native lands to new places (voluntary or involuntary).
- Ethnicity is determined by...
- social relations between an individual (or group) and the larger social context (Chinese in Phillipines).
- Race
- based on biological traits linked to ancestry
- Ethnicity
- cultural traits passed down from generations.
- Acculturation
- the cultural modification of an ethnic group as its members learn the traditions and ways of living of the dominant culture. May result in loss of ethnic status.
- Transculturation
- A process in which both the host society and the ethnic subculture are altered through the interchange of customs and ideas (Columbian Exchange).