Geography. January 11, Friday.

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1 Geography January 11, Friday.

2 Today s Attendance Question: Have you ever visited a house of worship or a religious service outside of your own faith?

3 Reminders: Have fun this weekend!

4 Goals To finish looking at how to categorize religion. To begin discussing how the religions are spread out in the world.

5 Learning Targets I can explain the major categories used to classify religions. I can explain where the major faiths of the world exist. I can define religiosity.

6 Section 1: What is religion? UNIVERSAL RELIGIONS These are religions that anyone can join. ETHNIC RELIGIONS These are religions that you generally have to be born into to be a member.

7 Section 1: What is religion? Universal religions also tend to be proselytic faiths.

8 Section 1: What is religion? To proselytize is to convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.

9 Section 1: What is religion? Another way to categorize religions is by counting their deities. A deity refers to the God or gods of a religion.

10 Section 1: What is religion? Monotheistic religions focus on a single deity. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all Monotheistic religions.

11 Section 1: What is religion? Religions with multiple deities are Polytheistic religions. The religions of Ancient Rome and Greece were Polytheistic religions.

12 Section 1: What is religion? Here s a video on the basics of the religion of ancient Greece: U The ancient Roman religion was very similar to those of the ancient Greeks.

13 Section 1: What is religion? In religions that are pantheistic, the concept of the divine is in everything and everywhere. Examples of classically pantheistic religions can be Shintoism and Native American religions.

14 Section 1: What is religion? Shintoism is a traditional religious practice from Japan. Here is a video on Shintoism. dm&t=77s

15 Reviewing Section 1: In Section 1, we Defined religion (with a 4 part definition). Saw different ways of categorizing religions.

16 Section 2: Religious Realms. In this section, we will look at a few maps showing us how the major religions are spread out across the world; and the intensity of people s religiousness across the world.

17 Section 2: Religious Realms. Most people in the world belong to one of two religious families: The Abrahamic Faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Indic Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, etc.)

18 Section 2: Religious Realms. ABRAHAMIC FAITHS INDIC RELIGIONS

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20 Section 2: Religious Realms. The Abrahamic faiths evolved in the Middle East, but their adherents live in every part of the world.

21 Section 2: Religious Realms. The Abrahamic religions claim descent from the Judaism of the ancient Israelites and the worship of the God of Abraham.

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23 Section 2: Religious Realms. The Indic religions evolved on the Indian subcontinent and spread northeast across Asia.

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25 Section 2: Religious Realms. As different parts of the world have different, dominant religions, so too is there a difference in religiosity across the world.

26 Section 2: Religious Realms. Religiosity can be defined as the quality of being religious.

27 Question: How would you measure religiosity? How would you describe religious behavior?

28 Section 2: Religious Realms. In the Muslim world, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, we see higher scores of religiosity (meaning religion plays a bigger role in people s lives).

29 Section 2: Religious Realms. Most countries with advanced economies score low on religiosity. However, the US is an exception to this.

30 Question: Why would religiosity or being religious decline in technologically advanced and economically rich countries?

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33 Section 2 Review In this section, we looked at how the major religions are spread across the globe. We also looked at the differences in religiosity across the world.