10/30/13; 5 Major Religions Notes

Today in human geo, we continued to talk about the five religions for our test on Friday. But we don’t have class tomorrow and we haven’t finished all the power points so I don’t know how that will work. Some notes from today’s class are;

·      Hinduism, Judaism, & Christianity are Abrahamic religions

o  There first five books are the same

·      Judaism’s holy site is Jerusalem

·      Buddha = Siddhartha Gautama

·      Most Hindu’s are in India

·      Most Buddhist’s are in Asia & 10% of India

·      Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions

·      (Judaism) call God El or Yahweh

·      (Judaism) The Temple; the center of Jewish worship, very sacred place to pray.

·      (Judaism) Holy Book is Torah

·      (Judaism) Official Language is Hebrew

·      (Hinduism) God is broken up into three parts; Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva

·      (Hinduism) believe deeply in karma and that one omniscient being controls everything

Most of this information and more will be on the test Friday.