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Branch
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A large and fundamental division within a religion
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Denomination
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A division of a branch that unites number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body
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Sect
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A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination
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Animism
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Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life
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Missionaries
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Individuals who help to transmit a universalizing religion through relocation diffusion
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Ghetto
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A city neighborhood set up by law to be inhabited only by Jews
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Pilgrimage
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A journey for religious purposes to a place considered sacred
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Cosmogony
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A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe
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Solstice
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Time when the sun is farthest from from the equator
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Hierarchical religion
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A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control
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Diocese
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The basic unit of geographic organization in the Roman Catholic Church
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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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Fundamentalism
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Literal interpretation and strict and intense adherence to basic principles of a religion
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Caste
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Teh class or distinct hereditary order into which a Hindu was assigned according to religious law
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Interfaith boundaries
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The boundaries between the world's major religions
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