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Universalizing religions The big 3 Christianity, Islam, Buddhism The attempt to be global and appeal to all people no matter where they are. Ethnic religions. Appeal primarily to only one group of people living in one place. Hinduism Confucianism Daoism. (Taoism) Shintoism Judaism
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Universalizing religions The big 3 Christianity, Islam, Buddhism The attempt to be global and appeal to all people no matter where they are.
Ethnic religions • Appeal primarily to only one group of people living in one place. • Hinduism • Confucianism • Daoism. (Taoism) • Shintoism • Judaism • Ethnic African religions (Animism)
Christianity • Roman Catholic • 52% • Eastern Orthodox • 10% • Protestant • 21%
Other Christians • 22% of Christians belong to churches not affiliated with the previous three. • 5% are self confessed Christians who have no church affiliation. This equals 110% because 10% have been baptized in more than one church.
Western hemisphere • About 90% of people living there are Christian. • Sharp boundaries still exist as in Europe. • Roman Catholics – 93% in Latin America • Roman Catholics - 29% in North America • Within North America RC’s clustered in south western and Northeastern U.S. and Quebec.
Western hemisphere • Protestant churches – 28% of U. S. population. • Baptists make up the largest group 35 million. • The next three largest are: • Methodist, Pentecostal and Lutheran. • Baptists – clustered in the southeast • Lutherans – upper mid west • The rest are scattered somewhat evenly.
Smaller Christian branches • Isolated at the beginning of Christianity • Because of doctrine and Islamic influence. • The Coptic church of Egypt and the Ethiopian church split from the ECC in 1948. and trace roots to shipwrecked Christians in the 4th century who were enslaved in Ethiopia. • Egyptian Coptic Church – NE Africa.
Church of Latter-day saints • Mormons regard themselves as Christians, a separate branch of Christianity.
Islam • Predominantly clustered in the middle east, north Africa and Central Asia. • Half the world’s Muslims live OUTSIDE the middle east.- Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. • Islam means – submission to the will of God. • Muslim in Arabic means “one who surrenders to God. • Follow the five pillars of faith
Branches of Islam • Sunni and Shiite • Sunni – (orthodox) 83% of Muslims • Shiite (sectarian) 16% of Muslims clustered in a handful of countries • 30% Iran , 90% of the population, more than half live in Azerbaijan. • 15% Pakistan • 10% Iraq
Muslims • Europe 5% • France has the largest population approx. 4 million. • Germany – 3 million. • Albania, Bosnia, Serbia about 2 million each. • US and Canada have approx. 5 million • US has “Nation of Islam” Malcolm X.
Buddhism • About 400 million people • Clustered in china and SE Asia. • Follow the four noble truths
Buddhism BUDDHISM
Buddhism • Differs from other religions in western world, • Someone can be a Buddhist and a believer in eastern religions, whereas Christianity and Islam require strict and exclusive adherence. • China and Japan are an example of places where some believe in Buddhism and an ethnic religion.
Other universalizing religions • Sikhism 25 million – founded by Pakistani. • First guru named Nanak God was revealed as the One Supreme Being. People can grow by taking responsibility for deeds and actions on earth. Adore and surrender to one God. • Baha'i’ 8 million – founded in Iran by Siyyid Ali Muhammad belief that a prophet” Bahaullah” established the faith to overcome disunity of religions and establish a faith that abolishes race class and religious prejudices.
Grammatical issues • Any paper with a symbol (&) for a word will be given a zero (0) grade.