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Culture
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The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people's distinct tradition |
EXAMPLE: The favorite music of the culture may include artists on the Billboard Top 100 or from the newest pop stars on YouTube. |
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Cultural Trait |
Any trait of human activity acquired in social life and transmitted by communication. |
EXAMPLE: Independence |
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Cultural Realm |
Distinct traditions, beliefs, and social life brought or controlled by a dominion of a monarchy of a certain region. |
EXAMPLE: Sino- Japanese |
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Habit |
A repetitive act performed by an individual. |
EXAMPLE: Brushing your teeth every night before bed. |
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Custom |
The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes a characteristic of the group of people performing the act. |
EXAMPLE: Americans wearing jeans. |
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Material Culture |
The aggregate of physical objects or artifacts used by a society. |
EXAMPLE: |
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Non- Material Culture |
Does not include physical objects or artifacts. |
EXAMPLE: Any ideas, beliefs, values, or norms that shape a society. |
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Cultural Identity |
The identity of a group. Or culture of an individual. |
EXAMPLE: Nationality, Ethnicity, religion. |
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Folk Culture |
Unifying expressive components of everyday life as enacted by localized, tradition-bound groups. |
EXAMPLES: The amish |
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Pop Culture |
Cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people. |
EXAMPLE: What you wearer how you speak. |
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Taboo
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a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.
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EXAMPLE: eating a certain food
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Cultural perception |
The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use. |
EXAMPLE: In Arabic countries the odors (of condiments, coffee etc.) are often perceived in more differentiated ways than e. g. in northern America.
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Folklore |
the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth.
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EXAMPLE: is a story about where their family came from told to a grandchild by his grandma.
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Sociofact
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describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations.
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EXAMPLE: a credit card
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Mentifact |
describe how cultural traits, such as "beliefs, values, ideas,"[2] take on a life of their own spanning over generations, and are conceivable as objects in themselves.
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EXAMPLE: Sunday is considered a day of rest in most Christian cultures
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Anglo- American Landscape
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an American, especially an inhabitant of the United States, whose language and ancestry are English |
EXAMPLE: politics
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architectural form
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the art and science of designing and superintending the erection of buildings and similar structures
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EXAMPLE: different types of shingles
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Traditional Architecture
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traditional architecture is a design that is "traditional meaning the style of the home/building is not contemporary or trendy
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EXAMPLE: Buddhist temples
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Sequence Occupancy
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several different cultural grops have occupied that territory so you will see different layers in modern culture |
EXAMPLE: New York
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Accumulation |
the acquisition or gradual gathering of something.
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EXAMPLE: the government
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Assimilation
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when a weaker group moves into a dominant culture by choice and adopts the traits of the dominant group gradually |
EXAMPLE: Accents
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Cultural adaptation
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the process of ensuring your message, whether translated into another language or not, is presented using cultural references and role models that your intended audience will identify with.
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EXAMPLE: spoken language(s)
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Cultural Convergence
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The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication. |
EXAMPLE: America and China
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Innovation Adoption
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rational process by the institutional theorists to provide a framework for examining relationships among environment, organization structure and strategy.
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EXAMPLE: ?
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Glocalization
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the practice of conducting business according to both local and global considerations
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EXAMPLE: Dell, Starbucks, McDonalds
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Core- Domain-Sphere model |
The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest. |
EXAMPLE: ?
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Cultural ecology |
is the study of human adaptations to social and physical environments.
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EXAMPLE: Data sheets about habits
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Survey Systems |
To know how many people live in an area and how many children in a family
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EXMAMPLE: 2010 census
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Extinct Language |
An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use.
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EXAMPLE: Chorotega
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isolated language |
one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language
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EXAMPLE: Korean
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language family
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A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family.
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EXAMPLE: Indo-European
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Standard Language |
variety used by a group of people in their public discourse
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EXAMPLE: English
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Vernacular
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the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region. |
EXAMPLE: English
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Esperanto |
an artificial language devised in 1887 as an international medium of communication, based on roots from the chief European languages.
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EXAM[PLE: ?
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Isogloss
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a line on a dialect map marking the boundary between linguistic features
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EXAMPLE: ?
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Lingua- Franca |
a a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different. |
EXAMPLE: Mix of French and Greek
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Pidgin |
a grammatically simplified form of a language,
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EXAMPLE: Chinook Jargon
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Trade Language
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restructured language (as a lingua franca or pidgin) used especially in commercial communication
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EXAMPLE: Pidgin from english
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Literary Tradition
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Quick Answer
Literary tradition is the passing down of stories which give meaning to human experiences, according to Literary Articles. |
EXAMPLE: Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water
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Indo- European Languages
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the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population
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EXAMPLE: germanic
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Linguistic Diversity
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the nearly 6000 languages still spoken (many barely existing) today that are now being threatened by economic, technological and idealogical globalization |
EXAMPLE: Italian
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Accent |
a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class. |
EXAMPLE: A strong English accent
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Dialect
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particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group
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EXAMPLE: Trinidad
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Ideogram
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a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it,
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EXAMPLE: numerals
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Multi- Lingual
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in or using several languages.
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EXAMPLE: Spanish and english
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Orthography
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the conventional spelling system of a language. |
EXAMPLE: d-I-c-t-I-o-n-a-r-y
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Creoloe
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a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage. |
EXAMPLE: " O the pretty"
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branch
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A large and fundamental division within a religion.
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EXAMPLE: Sunni and Shia
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denomination |
A division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations into a single legal and administrative body.
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EXAMPLE: Eastern orthodox
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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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EXAMPLE: Puritanism
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interfaith boundary |
The boundaries between the world's major religions.
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EXAMPLE: Hinduism and Islam
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Secularism
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belief system that rejects religion, or the belief that religion should not be part of the affairs of the state or part of public education.
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EXAMPLE: eating a certain meal
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reincarnation |
the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
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EXAMPLE: someone dying ad coming back as a new form
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Hierarchal religion |
A religion in which a central authority exercises a high degree of control.
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EXAMPLE: Hinduism
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Diocese
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a district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church.
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EXAMPLE: ?
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Universalizing religion |
religion that attempts to operate on a global scale and to appeal to all people
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EXAMPLE: Christianity
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Ethnic religion
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and conversion essentially equates to cultural assimilation into that ethnoreligious group.
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EXAMPLE: Jewish
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cosmogony
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A set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe.
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EXAMPLE: God created the earth in 7 days
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syncretism |
the amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought |
EXAMPLE: Christmas
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Animism
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the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. |
EXAMPLE: Shintoism
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Autonomous religion
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that attempts to operate on a global scale and to appeal to all people wherever they reside,
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EXAMPLE: Christianity
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Fundamentalism
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strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline.
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EXAMPLE: Women cant speak or pray in front of the congregation at a church of Christ.
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pilgrimage
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voluntary travel by an adherent to a sacred site to pay respects or participate in a ritual at the site |
EXAMPLE: ?
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Hadj |
the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca that takes place in the last month of the year, and that all Muslims are expected to make at least once during their lifetime.
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EXAMPLE: ?
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Sunni
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Sunni and Shia Islam are the two major denominations of Islam.
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EXAMPLE: ?
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Sharia Law
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the basic Islamic legal system derived from the religious precepts of Islam |
EXAMPLE: Quran and the Hadith
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Prosyletic
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a person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another, especially recently.
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EXAMPLE: · Christianity · Indian religions · Islam · Judaism
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Cargocult pilgrimage |
Cargo Cult's believe western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia |
EXAMPLE: soap bars being shipped
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Shamanism
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: a religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the shamans
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EXAMPLE: ?
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Tribal/TraditionalReligion
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Special forms of ethnic religions distinguished by their small size, their unique identity with localized culture groups not yet fully absorbed into modern society, and their close ties to nature. |
EXAMPLE: Certain rituals
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Zionism
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A worldwide movement, originating in the 19th century that sought to establish and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine. Since 1948, its function has been to support the state of Israel. |
EXAMPLE: Zionist from palestine
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Zoroastrianism
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a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
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EXAMPLE: good and evil or heaven and hell.
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Shintoism
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: the indigenous religion of Japan consisting chiefly in the cultic devotion to deities of natural forces and veneration of the Emperor as a descendant of the sun goddess
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EXAMPLE: Grand shrine of Ise
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Jainism
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a nontheistic religion founded in India in the 6th century BC by the Jina Vardhamana Mahavira as a reaction against the teachings of orthodox Brahmanism, and still practiced there.
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EXAMPLE: Rajasthan
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