Download 5 Major World Religions

Major World Religions
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam
Ethical System- Confucianism
What is Religion?
• Publicly shared beliefs, private
convictions, and expressions of faith
What do religions have in
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Offerings/rituals
Rules
Creation stories
Belief in someone/something
Morals
Customs/food
What do they give believers?
Why have it?
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Hope
Belief in something
Explain unexplainable
Agreed upon rules
Understand the world
Structure
Guidance
Why talk about religion in
History class?
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Wars
Empires
Art
Primary cause of : wars, revolutions,
explorations, migrations
• Rulers= divine status
Beginning of organized religion
• Early on, local religions
• Why large-scale organized religion?
– One possibility is the contact between groups
of people increased, the need for some
system of morality and shared belief was
necessary
– Religion provided cultural communication,
moral expectation, and personal trust
Belief System
Time of
appearance
Homeland
Hinduism
Early 1st
millennium B.C.
Northern India
Judaism
Early 1st
millennium B.C.
Southwest Asia
Buddhism
5th century B.C.
Northern India
Confucianism
5th century B.C.
Southwest Asia
Daoism (Taoism)
5th century B.C.
Northern China
Christianity
1st century C.E.
Southwest Asia
Islam
7th century C.E.
Southwest Asia