GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gautama Buddha, Major Religious Groups, Vaishnavism
21 Feb 2018
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Islam universalizing: believe in one god, allah, called muslims, submission to the will of god, muhammad, 570 a. d, qu(cid:396)"a(cid:374) Seven sacraments: t(cid:396)a(cid:374)su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)tiatio(cid:374) a(cid:272)t of the last uppe(cid:396) (cid:894)(cid:271)(cid:396)ead a(cid:374)d (cid:449)i(cid:374)e(cid:895) tdcsb, eastern orthodoxy, 14 self-governing churches. Global distribution: universalizing religions, christianity predominates in the western hemisphere and europe. Christianity: 2 billion adherents, roman catholicism, protestantism, eastern orthodox. Islam: 1. 3 billion adherents, half live outside the middle east. Shiite clustered in iran, pakistan, and iraq. Traditional ethnic religions: animism 100 million africans. Judaism: 6 million in u. s, 5 million in israel, 2 million in europe, 1 million each asia and latin america. Diversity of universalizing religions: other universalizing religions and christian churches exist, the united states/canada has strong regional differences. Several christian churches developed independently: north eastern africa coptic church and ethiopian church, armenian church, the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (e. g. mormons, other universalizing religions, sikhism, bah " .
