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CHAPTER 6
Religion
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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS
DISTRIBUTED?
Key Issue #1
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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS DISTRIBUTED?
Universalizing religions• Seek to appeal to all people• About 60% of the world
Ethnic religions• Appeal to a smaller group of people living in one place
• About 25% of the world
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WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF RELIGIONS
Figure 6-3
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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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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS DISTRIBUTED?
Universalizing religions• Christianity
• The largest world religion (about 2 billion adherents)
• Many adherents in Europe, the Americas• Three major branches
• Roman Catholicism (51 percent)• Protestant Christianity (24 percent)• Eastern Orthodox (11 percent)
• Other, smaller branches of Christianity comprise 14 percent of all Christians
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DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE UNITED STATES
Figure 6-2
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DIFFUSION OF CHRISTIANITY
Fig. 6-5: Christianity diffused from Palestine through the Roman Empire and continued diffusing through Europe after the fall of Rome. It was later replaced by Islam in much of the Mideast and North Africa.
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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS DISTRIBUTED?
Universalizing religions• Islam
• The second-largest world religion (about 1.3 billion adherents)
• Significant clusters in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia
• Core of Islamic belief = the five pillars• Two significant branches
• Sunnis (83 percent)• Shias or Shiites (16 percent)
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DIFFUSION OF ISLAM
Fig. 6-6: Islam diffused rapidly and widely from its area of origin in Arabia. It eventually stretched from southeast Asia to West Africa.
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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS DISTRIBUTED?
Universalizing religions• Buddhism
• About 400 million adherents (difficult to quantify)
• Significant clusters in China, Southeast Asia• The Four Noble Truths• Three branches
• Mahayana (China, Japan, Korea)• Theravada (Southeast Asia)• Tantrayana (Tibet, Mongolia)
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DIFFUSION OF BUDDHISM
Fig. 6-7: Buddhism diffused gradually from its origin in northeastern India to Sri Lanka, southeast Asia, and eventually China and Japan.
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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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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS DISTRIBUTED?
Ethnic religions• Hinduism
• The third-largest religion in the world (900 million adherents)
• 97 percent of Hindus are found in India
• Many paths to spirituality
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WHERE ARE RELIGIONS DISTRIBUTED?
Ethnic religions• Other ethnic religions
• Confucianism (China) • Daoism (China)• Shinto (Japan)• Judaism (today: the United States, Israel)
• The first monotheistic religion• Ethnic African religions
• Animism
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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.
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Ethnic Religions
Figure 6-4
Figure 6-5
BuddhismHinduism
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RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?
Key Issue #2
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?
Origin of religions• Universalizing: precise origins, tied to a specific
founder• Christianity
• Founder: Jesus• Islam
• Prophet of Islam: Muhammad • Buddhism
• Founder: Siddhartha Gautama
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?
Origin of religions• Ethnic: unclear or unknown origins, not tied to a
specific founder• Hinduism
• No clear founder• Earliest use of Hinduism = sixth century B.C.• Archaeological evidence dating from 2500
B.C.
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?Diffusion of religions
• Universalizing religions• Christianity
• Diffuses via relocation and expansion diffusion
• Islam• Diffuses to North Africa, South and Southeast
Asia• Buddhism
• Slow diffusion from the core
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DIFFUSION OF UNIVERSALIZING RELIGIONS
Figure 6-6
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?Limited diffusion of ethnic religions
• Universal religions usually compete with ethnic religions
• Examples of mingling:• Christianity with African ethnic religions• Buddhism with Confucianism in China and with
Shinto in Japan• Ethnic religions can diffuse with migration• Judaism = exception
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?
Holy places• In universalizing religions
• Buddhist shrines• Holy places in Islam = associated with the life of
Muhammad • In ethnic religions
• Holy places in Hinduism = closely tied to the physical geography of India
• Cosmogony in ethnic religions
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DIFFUSION OF UNIVERSALIZING
RELIGIONS
Figure 6-17
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WHY DO RELIGIONS HAVE DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS?
The calendar • In ethnic religions = celebration of the seasons
• The Jewish calendar• The solstice
• In universalizing religions = celebration of the founder’s life
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HOLY SITES IN BUDDHISM
Fig. 6-9: Most holy sites in Buddhism are locations of important events in Buddha’s life and are clustered in northeastern India and southern Nepal.
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WHY DO RELIGIONS ORGANIZE SPACE IN
DISTINCTIVE PATTERNS?
Key Issue #3
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WHY DO RELIGIONS ORGANIZE SPACE IN DISTINCTIVE WAYS?Places of
worship• Many types:
Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Jewish synagogues, Hindu temples, Buddhist and Shinto pagodas, Bahá’í houses of worship
Figure 6-19
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CHURCH IN NEW MEXICO
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CHURCH IN VERMONT
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ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN SAVANNAH
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SHRINE IN THAILAND
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SHRINE IN JAPAN
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BUDDHIST WALL RELIEF IN CHINA
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HINDU TEMPLE IN BANGLADESH
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BUDDHIST PAGODA
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OMAR MOSQUE IN JERUSALEM
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MOSQUE IN T IMBUKTU, MALI VS. ABUJA , NIGERIA
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Mickve Israel
Western/Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
Scroll of Isaiah
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THE GOLDEN TEMPLEAMRITSAR, INDIA
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BAHÁ' Í HOUSES OF WORSHIP
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ANGKOR WATCAMBODIA
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WHY DO RELIGIONS ORGANIZE SPACE IN DISTINCTIVE WAYS?
Sacred space• Disposing of the dead
• Burial• Other ways of disposing of the dead
• Religious settlements• Religious place names
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MUSLIM CEMETERY
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TOMBS
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RELIGIOUS TOPONYMS
Figure 6-21
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WHY DO RELIGIONS ORGANIZE SPACE IN DISTINCTIVE WAYS?
Administration of space• Hierarchical religions
• Roman Catholics• Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
• Locally autonomous religions • Islam• Protestant denominations
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M E C C A , I S L A M ’ S H O L I E S T C I T Y
Fig. 6-10: Makkah (Mecca) is the holiest city in Islam and is the site of pilgrimage for millions of Muslims each year. There are numerous holy sites in the city.
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ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN THE
UNITED STATES
Figure 6-22
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WHY DO TERRITORIAL CONFLICTS ARISE AMONG
RELIGIOUS GROUPS?
Key Issue #4
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WHY DO TERRITORIAL CONFLICTS ARISE?
Religions versus government policies• Religion versus social change
• Taliban and Western values• Hinduism and social inequality
• Caste system• Religion versus communism
• Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam in the Soviet Union
• Buddhism in Southeast Asia
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WHY DO TERRITORIAL CONFLICTS ARISE?
Religion versus religion• Fundamentalism• Religious wars in Ireland• Religious wars in the Middle East
• Crusades (Christians in Muslim lands)• Jews and Muslims in Palestine
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TWO PERSPECTIVES ON PALESTINE/ISRAEL
Figure 6-26
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B O U N D A RY C H A N G E S I N PA L E S T I N E / I S R A E L
Fig. 6-15: The UN partition plan for Palestine in 1947 contrasted with the boundaries that were established after the 1948–49 War. Major changes later resulted from the 1967 War.
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JERUSALEM
Fig. 6-14: The Old City of Jerusalem contains holy sites for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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ISRAEL’S “SEPARATION FENCE”
Figure 6-27
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DISTRIBUTION OF PROTESTANTS
IN IRELAND
Figure 6-23