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| A system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities |
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| The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on Earth, not to accomodate the prescriptions of a deity and promises of a comfortable afterlife. A secular state is the opposite of a theocracy |
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| Literally wind-water. The chineses aret and science of placement and orientation of tombs, dwellings, buildings, and cities. Structures and objects are positioned in an effort to channel flows of sheng-chi in favorable ways |
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| The movement to unite the Jewish people of the diaspora and to establish a national homeland for them in the promised land |
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| Adherents of one of the two main divisions of Islam. Also known as Shiahs, the ______ represent the Persian(Iranian) variation of Islam and believe in the infallibility and divine right to authority of the Imams, descendants of Ali |
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| Tower attached to a Muslim mosque, having one or more projecting balconies from which a crier calls Muslims to prayer. |
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| Boundaries betweens the worlds major faiths |
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| The systematic killing or extermination of an entire people or nation |
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| Religious fundamentalism carried to the point of violence |
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| A doctrine within Islam. Commonly translated as "Holy War" represents either a personal or collective struggle on the part of Muslims to live up to the religious standards set by the Qu'ran |
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| The system of Islamic law, sometimes called Qu'ranice law. Unlike moste Western systems of law that are based on legal precedence, Sharia is based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Qu'ran |
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| From the Greek "too disperse" a term describing forceful or voluntary dispersal of people from their homeland to anew place. Originally denoting the dispersal of Jews, it is increasingly aplied to other population dispersals, such as the involuntary relocation of Black peoples during the slave trade or Chinese people outside of Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong |
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| Adherents to the largest branch of Islam called the orthodox or traditionalist. They believe in the effectiveness of family and community in the solution of life's problems, and they differ from the Shiites in accepting the traditions of Muhammad as authoritative |
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| Community faith in traditional societies in which people follow their shaman- a religious leader,teacher, healer, and visionary. At times a shaman might atttract a regional following, but most of the time they stay a local figure |
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| The Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of Muhammad |
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| Boundaries within a single major faith |
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| Religious whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy |
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