Packet notes

Today in human geography class on January 9th, we reviewed a packet and notes on the top 5 major religions and we reviewed the most important notes.

-People typically retain there religion
- Reliable statistics on the number of adherents are difficult to obtain
- Juchte, judaism, sikhism, spiritism all have between 14 and 23 million adherents each
- India is 80% hindu
- More then 90% of Latin Americans and more than 75% of Europeans and North Americans identify themselves as adhering to christianity
- Judaism is the most widely practiced religion in the state of Isreal
- Christianity is the most widely practiced religion in every country of the Western Hemisphere
- Muslims comprise more then 90% of the population of Central Asia and of Southwest Asia and North Asia
- Christianity has three major branches Roman catholic, orthodox, and protestant
- Roam catholics comprise approximately 50% of the world's christians and orthodox around 12%. The other 38% of the world's christians are divided between protestants and others
- Islam is divided into 2 principal branches which are Sunni and Shiite
- The countries with the most Muslims are Pakistan, Indonesia, India, and Bangladesh
- Islam is the predominant religion of Central Asia and of southwest Asia and North Africa
- Buddhism is clustered primary in East Asia and southwest Asia
- the muslim population in north America is widely from 1-5 million
- in Europe muslims account for 5% of the population
- Germany has about 3 million muslims
- Someone can be Both a buddhist and a believer in other eastern religions, whereas Christianity and Islam both require exclusive adherence
- Most buddhist in China and Japan, in particular, believe at the same time in an ethnic religion
- 97% of Hindus are connected in one country which is India
- judaism is the first recorded religion to espouse monotheism
- Fundamental to judaism is belief in one all-powerful God. Judaism offered a sharp contrast to the polytheism practiced by neighboring people, who worshipped a collection of gods