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Survey details
79 students were polled in an anonymous religious survey asking 6 questions.
The students were all from AP Human Geography.
75 students were freshmen.
3 students were juniors.
1 student was a senior.
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What religion do you feel you
belong to?
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What Christian
Branch/Denomination?
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How frequently do you worship?
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How important is religion to you?
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Do you feel that your religion is the only right
religion?
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How often do you pray each day?
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How much time do you spend involved in your religion each
week?
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Chapter 6: Religion
The Cultural Landscape:
An Introduction to Human Geography
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Key Issue 1:Where Are Religions Distributed? Universalizing religions
Seek to appeal to all people
Ethnic religions Appeal to a smaller group of people living in one place
Distribution of Hinduism in the world
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World Distribution of Religions
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At Your Tables…
Each person briefly discuss the most interesting new information that you learned about a one of your 5 religions
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Where Are Religions Distributed?
Universalizing religions Christianity
The largest world religion (about 2.3 billion adherents) Many adherents in Europe, the Americas
Three major branches Roman Catholicism (51 percent) Protestant Christianity (24 percent) Eastern Orthodox (11 percent)
Other, smaller branches of Christianity comprise 14 percent of all Christians
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Distribution of Christians in the
United States
Figure 6-2
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Where Are Religions Distributed?
Universalizing religions Islam
The second-largest world religion (about 1.3 billion adherents) Significant clusters in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
Core of Islamic belief = the five pillars
Two significant branches Sunnis (83 percent) Shias or Shiites (16 percent)
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Muslim Distribution
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Where Are Religions Distributed?
Universalizing religions Buddhism
About 400 million adherents (difficult to quantify) Significant clusters in China, Southeast Asia
The Four Noble Truths Three branches
Mahayana (China, Japan, Korea) – many Buddhas Theravada (Southeast Asia) – traditional Tantrayana (Tibet, Mongolia) – magic & meditation…
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Key Issue 2:
Why Do Religions Have Different
Distributions? Origin of religions Universalizing: precise origins, tied to a specific founder Christianity
Founder: Jesus
Islam Prophet of Islam: Muhammad
Buddhism Founder: Siddhartha Gautama
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At Your Tables…
Discuss which of your religions were “Universalizing”
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Where Are Religions Distributed?
Ethnic religions Hinduism
The third-largest religion in the world (900 million adherents)
97 percent of Hindus are found in India Many paths to spirituality
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Where Are Religions Distributed?
Ethnic religions Other ethnic religions
Confucianism (China) Daoism (China) Shinto (Japan) Judaism (today: the United States, Israel) The first monotheistic religion
Ethnic African religions Animism
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Why Do Religions Have Different
Distributions? Origin of religions
Ethnic: unclear or unknown origins, not tied to a specific founder Hinduism
No clear founder Earliest use of Hinduism = sixth century
B.C.
Archaeological evidence dating from 2500 B.C.
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At Your Tables…
Discuss which of your religions were “Ethnic”
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Religions of the United States
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World Distribution of Religions
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Why Do Religions Have Different
Distributions? Diffusion of religions
Universalizing religions Christianity
Diffuses via relocation and expansion diffusion.
Missionary efforts. Colonization.
Islam Diffuses to North Africa, South and Southeast
Asia. Conquests of Northern Africa and Indonesia.
Buddhism Slow diffusion from the core into SE and E
Asia.
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Diffusion of Universalizing Religions
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Why Do Religions Have Different
Distributions? Limited diffusion of ethnic religions
Universal religions usually compete with ethnic religions
Examples of mingling: Christianity with African ethnic religions
Buddhism with Confucianism in China and with Shinto in Japan
Ethnic religions can diffuse with migration
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Why Do Religions Have Different
Distributions? Holy places
In universalizing religions Buddhist shrines Holy places in Islam = associated with the life of Muhammad
In ethnic religions Holy places in Hinduism = closely tied to the physical geography of India
Cosmogony in ethnic religions Cosmogony:
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Why Do Religions Have Different
Distributions? The calendar
In ethnic religions = celebration of the seasons The Jewish calendar The solstice
In universalizing religions = celebration of the founder’s life
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Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways? Places of worship Many types: Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, Buddhist and Shinto pagodas, Bahá’í houses of worship
Figure 6-19
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Wilmette, USA
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Frankfurt, Germany
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New Delhi, India
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New Delhi, India
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Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways?
Sacred space Disposing of the dead
Burial (Christians, Jews, Muslims) Other ways of disposing of the dead
Cremation (Hinduism, Jedi)
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Religious Toponyms
Figure 6-21
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Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways?
Administration of space Hierarchical religions
Latter-day Saints Roman Catholics
Locally autonomous religions Islam Protestant denominations
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Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the
United States
Figure 6-22
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Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise?
Religions versus government policies Religion versus social change
Taliban and Western values Hinduism and social inequality
Caste system
Religion versus communism Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam in the Soviet Union
Buddhism in Southeast Asia
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Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise?
Religion versus religion Fundamentalism Religious wars in Ireland Religious wars in the Middle East
Crusades (Christians in Muslim lands) Jews and Muslims in Palestine
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Distribution of Protestants in Ireland
Figure 6-23
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Two Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
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Israel’s “Separation Fence”
Figure 6-27
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The End.
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