KBAT CHAPTER 3 – THE GEOGRAPHY OF RELIGION
VAGLIO
I. KNOW
- VOCABULARY
Religion / Proselytic religions / Ethnic religions
Sacred space / Spiritual geography / Mystical places
Monotheism / Polytheism / Western Christianity
Eastern Christianity / Coptic Church / Maronites
Nestorians / Eastern Orthodoxy / Protestantism
Bible Belt / Islam / The Qur’an
Five Pillars of Islam / Shiite Muslim / Sunni Muslim
Judaism / Sephardim / Ashkenazim
Hinduism / Jainism / Sikhism
Buddhism / Confucianism / Taoism
Shintoism / Lamaism / Animism
Shamanism / Secularization / Semitic Religious Hearth
Ethnic religions / Contact conversions / Indus-Ganga religious hearth
Religious ecology / Geomancy of “feng-shui” / Ellen Churchill Semple
Teleological view / Doctrine of ahisma / Food taboos
“dry” counties USA / Pilgrimage / Lourdes, France
Mecca / Ganga River / Partition of India
Theocracy / Sacred landscapes / Mosques
Minarets / Religious toponyms
II. BE ABLE TO
1. Understand and describe the origin and spatial diffusion of major world religions and their subdivisions
2. Explain why certain religions expanded over several continents, such as Islam, while other religions experienced little change in range of membership
3. Know and describe the difference between ethnic and proselytic religions. You should also know examples for each type
4. Understand the regional patterns of various branches of Christianity, especially in the United States.
5. Begin to understand the role of religion in shaping politics and the economy, especially in regards to territory.
6. Discuss the major theories explaining why three major monotheistic faiths, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, began in the same geographic region, as well as the connection between these religions.
7. Understand the various relationships between the modification of the environment and different religions.
8. Discuss aspects and locations of animistic belief systems, including their attachment to the local world.
9. Interpret different burial systems and the resulting landscape of the dead.
10. Begin to think about the role of religion in shaping history, migration, settlement patterns, and cultural geography of your home region and perhaps your family and or ancestors.