The Religions

Christians geographical concentration

  This paper is going over Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism. Christianity was founded around 30 AD and first century in Palestine by the disciples. Christianity is a monotheistic religion. Christianity has the bible. Christianity has 2+ followers in its religion. Christianity’s center figure is Jesus Christ.  Islam was founded in the 7^th century AD. Islam is monotheistic a religion. Islam’s holy book is called the Qur'an. .Islam has 1.4 to 1.67 billion followers. Islam’s center figure is Allah, which is "God" in Arabic

Islam's geographical concentration

.  Buddhism was founded in approximately 460 B.C. It was founded by a prince named Siddhartha Gautama.  Buddhism is neither monotheistic nor polytheistic.  Buddhism does not depend on the existence of a God who created the universe. The sacred book of Buddhism is called the Tipitaka.  Buddhists that are in the world is between 230 million and 500 million making it the world's fourth-largest religion.  The number of Buddhists per capita is, appropriately, in Tibet..  Hinduism was founded in 1500-500 BCE and this era of Hinduism is known as historic Vedic Hindu religion, while modern Hinduism started from 1700-1100BCE.  Hinduism has given much freedom to people in worship.  Hinduism says God has as many forms as there are trees, animals, etc.  The main Hindu scriptures are the Vedas.  Number of followers may range anywhere between 860 million to 1.4 billion.  Hindu is a geographical definition used for the people living beyond the river Indus or those living in India. Judaism was founded by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob about 3800 years ago. Judaism is monotheistic.  The Torah is the most holy book of Judaism.  There are between 12-14 million known Jews throughout the world today.  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel are called the Patriarchs they are the center figures for Judaism.  The geographical concentration for Judaism is 6,500,000 Jews in the U.S..