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CGU4U – World Geography
Chapter 6 – RELIGION
Key Issue # 1 “Where Are Religions Distributed?”
Read pages 183-196 and answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper.
1. What is the difference between universalizing and ethnic religions?
2. What are the three universalizing religions?
3. a) What are the three branches of Christianity?
b) What percentage do they make up?
c) Where are they primarily located?
4. Why do you think sharp boundaries exist between Roman Catholics and Protestants?
5. What religion comprises the overwhelming majority in the Western Hemisphere? Why?
6. Provide examples of smaller Christian religions and communities.
7. Looking at figure 6-1, summarize the patterns based on the four major religions: Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism, and Hinduism.
8. Where are the ethnic religions primarily located?
9. What are the five pillar of faith for the Islamic religion?
10. a) What are the two branches of Islam?
b) Which is more dominant?
c) Is there a geographic (regional) difference between the two
branches?
11. What are the four noble truths of the Buddhist religion?
12. a) What are the three branches of Buddhism?
b) Why do they exist and where?
13. Why is it difficult to calculate the number of followers of Buddhism?
14. What are the other universal religions and where are they found?
15. Briefly summarize the following ethnic religions: Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, Shintoism,
Judaism, Animism.
16. How does the origin of universalizing and ethnic religions differ?
17. Summarize the origins for: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
18. Summarize the diffusion of Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism.
19. Judiasm is an ethnic religion yet the spatial distribution would indicate otherwise. Explain.