Tuesday, December 9, 2014

review class on 12/9

Today's class, we reviewed some questions for the test tomorrow.
Christianity:
largest, 2.2 billion, the main location is Europe, the Americas, southern Africa.

Islam:
second largest, 1.5 billion, the main location is Indonesia, Middle East, north Africa.
denominations: Sunnis (75- 90%)     Shiites (10- 20%)
founder: Muhammad (570- 632)
Hinduism
third largest, 1.1 billion, the main location is India, Nepal
the holy book: the Vedas, in a word: reincarnation (投胎)

Buddhism
adherents 500 million- 1.5 billion, the main location is southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan
right: view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, dedicatioin

Judaism
adherent:14- 18 million (ninth) location is Israel
founder: Abraham      holy book: Talmud, Torah

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