Religion

1. Religion By: Sarahanne Swope

2. Hinduism • The most major religion in the world. • Unlike any other religion in the world. • Always been inclusive then exclusive. • Belief in the transmigration souls. • Caste system of India is another characteristic. • Worshiped in temples. • Main concern became released from the cycle of birth and death. • Asceticism grew rapidly and has remained a prominent feature.

3. Hinduism Con. • Devotional literature and hymns honoring written in the Tamil language. • Christian missionaries were the primary influences in the early 19th century. • Without persecuting each other or accusing each other of heresy. • Have so far eluded scholars and other investigators. • under influence that the earliest Hinduism developed. • contents are not much known by most Hindus today. • 1,000-year era was noted for the division of Hinduism into sects and schools of philosophy. • strongly influenced by its social consciousness.

4. Christianity • Based on life, death, and coming life again. • World’s largest religion. • With all the differences in beliefs in the many denominations of Christianity. • No one has ever succeeded in distilling. • Early Christians were all Jews. • No thought of venturing beyond the confines of Israel with their message.

5. Christianity Con. • Borrowed greatly from Jewish forms. • Used prayers, sang psalms, read from the scriptures. • Used two rites that had been commanded of them. • history is filled with conflict, controversy, and division. • Established in nearly all parts of the Roman Empire and in the Middle East during the first two centuries. • Theodosius made it the most it the official religion of the Roman Empire.

6. Judaism • One of the major monotheistic religions of the world. • Jewish people were dispersed throughout the world. • Jewish revolts against Rome in the 1st and 2nd centuries. • Jewish people had no homeland. • Judaism was not found in the Hebrew Bible. • Jews would get together and hear the scriptures. • Provide guidance for the Jewish people was the party of rabbis. • AD70 ended Jewish opposition 60 years later.

7. Judaism Con. • Jewish doctrines concerning God, man, and the nature of Israel. • Rabbis order that Jewish people dispersed throughout the middle East. • Judaism the supreme virtue for individuals and the community. • Rabbinic Judaism it was understood the life of the individual and the life in the community. • Judaism has two cycles of festival days in the year. • Judaism considers that all of life is holy, that is, set apart for devotion to God. • Jewish immigrants came to North America in the late 1880’s.

8. Buddhism • One of the great Asian religions. • Dates back to the ancient times. • Is the world’s fourth- largest religion. • Estimated 360 million Buddhists in the world. • Buddha taught the four noble truths. • A Buddhist sect in Tibet.

9. Buddhism

10. Judaism

11. Christianity

12. Hinduism

13. Work Cited • http://www.thaigirlfriendadvisor.com • http://www.mimosaspirit.com • http://lasvegascourierservice.com • http://www.wayfaring.info • http://www.tpub.com/content/religion • http://www.thespiritualsanctuary.org • http://library.thinkquest.org

14. Work Cited • http://www.aarweb.org • http://withfriendship.com • http://www.webring.org • http://edu.glogster.com • http://christrescuemission.org • http://www.roehampton.ac.uk • http://keep3.sjfc.edu

15. Work Cited • http://www.indiatalkies.com • http://www.lightplanet.com