FRIDAY

Examples of Spatial Division

• Political alliance

 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  Commonwealth of Nations
 Organization of American States (OAS)


Five Major Religions

Christianity

• 2.2 billion(largest in the world)
• we call them Christians
• geographic location; Europe, the Americas, southern Africa
• denominations: Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Protestants
• founder: Jesus Christ
• holy book: The bible especially the New Testament
• beliefs: Jesus is both human and divine- The Son of God, he led virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected, he ascended into heaven where he reigns with God
• clergy: the Pope is head of the church, priests are local authorities 

Today we took notes on different kinds of religion. We still have more religions to cover, but we will finish that on Monday. 

    Islam 

• 1.5 billion (second largest)
• call them: Muslims
• location: Indonesia, middle east, north africa
• denominations: Sunnis 75-90%, Shiites 10-20%
• founder: Muhammad 
• holy book: Qur'an 
• beliefs: monotheistic, Abrahamic
• Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah(God), and observing Islamic Law
• Five Pillars (testimony, prayer, alms- giving, fasting, pilgrimage)

 Hinduism 

• 1.1 billion (third largest)
• calle them:Hindus
• location: India, Nepal
• holy book:  the vedas- eternal truths revealed to ancient ages, written in verse form(meant to be sung and easily memorized
• founder: no distant founder- it is a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a regis, strict set of beliefs- probably the oldest religion, although Hinduism is less a religion than a way of life, or a faith

 Buddhism 

number of adherents: 500 million to 1.5 billion 

called them: buddhists

location: southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan ( 1,2 million in the U.S)

founder: Siddhartha Gautama

denominations: Tibetan, Zen, Theravada, Amidist