AP HuG Chapter 6 Vocab

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Agnosticism

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Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or unknown in fact. It can also mean an apathy towards such religious belief and refer to personal limitations rather than a worldview.

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Animism

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1. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.

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Atheism

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Atheism is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Autonomous religion

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A religion that does not have a central authority but shares ideas and cooperates informally

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Branch

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A large & fundamental division within a religion

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Congregation

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a group of people assembled for religious worship.

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Cosmogony

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the branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe, especially the solar system.

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Caste

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each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.

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Denomination

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a recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church.

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Ethnic religion

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Ethnic religions are defined as religions which are related to a particular ethnic group