Universalizing religions The big 3 Christianity, Islam, Buddhism

1. Universalizing religions The big 3 Christianity, Islam, Buddhism The attempt to be global and appeal to all people no matter where they are.

2. Ethnic religions • Appeal primarily to only one group of people living in one place. • Hinduism • Confucianism • Daoism. (Taoism) • Shintoism • Judaism • Ethnic African religions (Animism)

4. Christianity • Roman Catholic • 52% • Eastern Orthodox • 10% • Protestant • 21%

5. Other Christians • 22% of Christians belong to churches not affiliated with the previous three. • 5% are self confessed Christians who have no church affiliation. This equals 110% because 10% have been baptized in more than one church.

6. Europe geography demographic

7. Western hemisphere • About 90% of people living there are Christian. • Sharp boundaries still exist as in Europe. • Roman Catholics – 93% in Latin America • Roman Catholics - 29% in North America • Within North America RC’s clustered in south western and Northeastern U.S. and Quebec.

8. Western hemisphere • Protestant churches – 28% of U. S. population. • Baptists make up the largest group 35 million. • The next three largest are: • Methodist, Pentecostal and Lutheran. • Baptists – clustered in the southeast • Lutherans – upper mid west • The rest are scattered somewhat evenly.

9. Smaller Christian branches • Isolated at the beginning of Christianity • Because of doctrine and Islamic influence. • The Coptic church of Egypt and the Ethiopian church split from the ECC in 1948. and trace roots to shipwrecked Christians in the 4th century who were enslaved in Ethiopia. • Egyptian Coptic Church – NE Africa.

10. Church of Latter-day saints • Mormons regard themselves as Christians, a separate branch of Christianity.

11. Islam • Predominantly clustered in the middle east, north Africa and Central Asia. • Half the world’s Muslims live OUTSIDE the middle east.- Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. • Islam means – submission to the will of God. • Muslim in Arabic means “one who surrenders to God. • Follow the five pillars of faith

12. Branches of Islam • Sunni and Shiite • Sunni – (orthodox) 83% of Muslims • Shiite (sectarian) 16% of Muslims clustered in a handful of countries • 30% Iran , 90% of the population, more than half live in Azerbaijan. • 15% Pakistan • 10% Iraq

13. Muslims • Europe 5% • France has the largest population approx. 4 million. • Germany – 3 million. • Albania, Bosnia, Serbia about 2 million each. • US and Canada have approx. 5 million • US has “Nation of Islam” Malcolm X.

14. Buddhism • About 400 million people • Clustered in china and SE Asia. • Follow the four noble truths

15. Buddhism BUDDHISM

16. Buddhism • Differs from other religions in western world, • Someone can be a Buddhist and a believer in eastern religions, whereas Christianity and Islam require strict and exclusive adherence. • China and Japan are an example of places where some believe in Buddhism and an ethnic religion.

17. Other universalizing religions • Sikhism 25 million – founded by Pakistani. • First guru named Nanak God was revealed as the One Supreme Being. People can grow by taking responsibility for deeds and actions on earth. Adore and surrender to one God. • Baha'i’ 8 million – founded in Iran by Siyyid Ali Muhammad belief that a prophet” Bahaullah” established the faith to overcome disunity of religions and establish a faith that abolishes race class and religious prejudices.

18. Grammatical issues • Any paper with a symbol (&) for a word will be given a zero (0) grade.