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Chapter 6: Religion
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Why do geographers study religion?
Geographers, though, are not theologians, so they stay focused on those elements of religions that are geographically significant.
Geographers study spatial connections in religion: the distinctive place of origin the extent of diffusion the processes by which
religions diffused practices and beliefs that lead
some to have more widespread distributions.
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Key Issue 1: Distribution of Religions
Universalizing religions Christianity Islam Buddhism
Ethnic religions Hinduism Other ethnic
religions
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World Distribution of Religions
Fig. 6-1: World religions by continent.
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World Population by Religion
Fig. 6-1a: Over two-thirds of the world’s population belong to Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism. Christianity is the single largest world religion.
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The Three Main Religions
The three main universalizing religions are Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
Each is divided into branches, denominations, and sects. A branch is a large and
fundamental division within a religion.
A denomination is a division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations.
A sect is a relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.
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Christianity and it’s Branches
Christianity has about 2 billion adherents, far more than any other world religion, and has the most widespread distribution.
Christianity has three major branches: Roman Catholic Protestant Eastern Orthodox
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Christian Branches in Europe
Fig. 6-2: Protestant denominations, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy are dominant in different regions of Europe—a result of many historic interactions.
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Christian Branches in the U.S.
Fig. 6-3: Distribution of Christians in the U.S. Shaded areas are counties with more than 50% of church membership concentrated in Roman Catholicism or one of the Protestant denominations.
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Islam
Islam, the religion of 1.2 billion people, is the predominant religion of the Middle East from North Africa to Central Asia.
However, half of the world’s Muslims live in four countries outside the Middle East: Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.
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Branches of Islam
Islam is divided into two important branches: Sunni (from the Arabic
word for orthodox) Shiite (from the Arabic
word for sectarian, sometimes written Shia in English).
Sunnis 83% of Muslims , the largest branch in most Muslim countries
16% of Muslims are Shiites, clustered in a handful of countries.
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Buddhism
Has 350 million adherents, especially in China and Southeast Asia.
The three main branches are Mahayana, Theravada, Tantrayana.
An accurate count of Buddhists is especially difficult, because only a few people participate in Buddhist institutions.
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Ethnic Religions The ethnic religion
with by far the largest number of followers is Hinduism. With 900 million adherents, Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion, behind Christianity and Islam.
Ethnic religions in Asia and Africa comprise most of the remainder.
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Ethnic Religions
HinduismConfucianismDaoismShintoismJudaism
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Origin of Religions Universalizing religions have precise places of origin, based on events in the life of a man.
Ethnic religions have unknown or unclear origins, not tied to single historical individuals.
Each of the three universalizing religions can be traced to the actions and teachings of a man who lived since the start of recorded history.
Specific events also led to the division of the universalizing religions into branches.
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Origin of Christianity
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Origin of Islam
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Origin of Buddhism
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Diffusion of Universalizing Religions
Fig. 6-4: Each of the three main universalizing religions diffused widely from its hearth.
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Lack of Diffusion of Ethnic Religions
Most ethnic religions have limited, if any, diffusion.
These religions lack missionaries.
Diffusion of universalizing religions, especially Christianity and Islam, typically comes at the expense of ethnic religions.
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Shintoism and Buddhism in Japan
Fig. 6-8: Since Japanese can be both Shinto and Buddhist, there are many areas in Japan where over two-thirds of the population are both Shinto and Buddhist.