This document contains notes on religion from various sources including pages 188-189 and 191 of an unknown text, as well as websites on religion worldwide, Christianity in Europe, Islam in Africa, and the distribution of Hinduism and Buddhism. It also includes notes on major world religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism providing statistics on adherents and geographic origins or centers.

1. Religion Notes
Ms. Patten
2013

2. Religion Worldwide
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

3. Religion Worldwide
pg 188

4. Religion Worldwide
pg 188-89
pg 188-89
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/rubenstein7/chapter6/medialib/05fig0

5. Religion: US
pg 191

6. Minnesota
http://www.religionatlas.org/religion_region/MIDWEST/MinnAd.htm

7. Judaism and the
Holocaust
Austria 50,000 -- 27.0%
Italy 7,680 -- 17.3%
Belgium 28,900 -- 44.0%
Latvia 71,500 -- 78.1%
Bohemia/Moravia 78,150 -- 66.1%
Lithuania 143,000 -- 85.1%
Luxembourg 1,950 -- 55.7%
Netherlands 100,000 -- 71.4%
Estonia 2,000 -- 44.4%
Norway 762 -- 44.8%
Poland 3,000,000 -- 90.9%
France 77,320 -- 22.1%
Romania 287,000 -- 47.1%
Germany 141,500 -- 25.0%
Slovakia 71,000 -- 79.8%
Greece 67,000 -- 86.6%
Soviet Union 1,100,000 -- 36.4%
Hungary 569,000 -- 69.0%
Yugoslavia 63,300 -- 81.2%
6 million Jews
5 million others
Gypsies, Serbs, Polish
intelligentsia, resistance
fighters from all the
nations, German
opponents of Nazism,
homosexuals, Jehovah's
Witnesses, habitual
criminals, and the "antisocial," e.g. beggars,
vagrants, and hawkers

8.  Branch
Religion
 A large and
fundamental division
within a religion
 Denomination
 A division of a
Belief in and
branch
reverence for a
 Sect
supernatural
 Relatively small
power or powers
group that has
broken away from an
regarded as
established
denomination
creator and
governor of the
universe.
American Heritage, 2007
Cindi Is Having Blue Jello

9. Christianity
 33%...2 Billion
 Israel/Jordan
 Roman Catholic/Protestant/Eastern
Orthodox
 Most widely dispersed
Cindi Is Having Blue Jello

10. Christianity in
Europe pg 190

11. Christianity

12. Christianity:
Diffusion pg 198

13. Islam
21%...1.3Billion
Arabia (Israel/Jordan)
Shiite (sectarian, 16%) /Sunni (orthodox,
83%)
 In Iraq, 60-65% of the population was
Shiite, but were ruled by a Sunni leader
representing 32-37% of the population
 Fastest growing…Indonesia



Cindi Is Having Blue Jello

14. Islam
pg 199

15. Islam http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_islam_87.jpg

16. Hinduism
 13%...820 million
 Pakistan along the
Indus River
 …India today
 Regional religion
 World’s oldest
organized religion
CIHBJ

17. Hinduism
http://www.pluralism.org/resources/statistics/distribution

18. Buddhism
 6%...365 million
 N India origins but E/SE Asia today
 3 branches
CIHBJ

19. Buddhism
http://www.pluralism.org/resources/statistics/distribution.php

20. Buddhism
pg 200

21. Judaism
 .2%...18 million
 Israel/Jordan
 Orthodox/Reform/Conservative
CIHBJ

22. The Power Influence
Secular States
 Indifference to
religion
 Industrialization
and urbanization
 United States,
Europe
Non Secular States
 Religion
embedded in
government
 Rural and
conservative
societies
 Muslim world:
Afghanistan/Iran

23. The Reach of the
Religion
Global/Universalizing
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
aka
universal
 actively
seek
converts




Traditional
 Africa
 S. America
 Local and
of limited
extent
Cultural
 Hinduism
 Confucianis
m
 Taoism
 Dominate
a single
culture
 regional or
ethnic

24. The Reach of the
Religion

25. The Central Focus
Monotheistic
 Single
deity or
god
 Islam
 Christianity
Polytheistic
 Multiple
gods
 Hinduism
Animistic
 Inanimate
objects
possess
spirits and
are
revered