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WORLD RELIGIONS
Something to think about…
 Why and how do religions start?
 How might geography influence religion?
FIVE World Religions
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Hinduism
Judaism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
 Worlds oldest religion. It has no founder.
 Probably started with the religious beliefs of the
Aryans and the first people who lived in the Indus
River Valley.
 A religion with many gods, and many beliefs- seven
truths and reincarnation.
Judaism
 Abraham was a shepherd in Ur, when God spoke to
him and told him to travel to Canaan in 1800 BC.
 Abraham is considered to be the first Jew.
 The Hebrew bible says that God told Abraham to
move to Canaan and he would take care of him and
his people.
Buddhism
 Siddhartha Gautama, the man who came to be known as the Buddha,
or “The Enlightened One” was born in 563 BC.
 He was born into a wealthy ruling family and his father protected him
from the world.
 When he became an adult, he left the palace and saw a sick man and a
poor monk.
 After thinking about these things, he left his comfortable palace life and
began his lifelong journey.
Christianity
 Christianity was started around 15 AD by Jesus, a
Jewish man who grew up in Nazareth.
 The Christian religion is centered around Jesus’s
teachings which are documented in the New
Testament of the Bible.
Islam
 During Muhammad’s meditations in 610 AD, God
revealed to him the religions of Islam.
 By 613, he began teaching publicly that there is only
one God and that this God requires people to submit
to him.
 The Arabic word for submission is Islam, and
believers in Islam are called Muslim.
Poster Project
 Each group will complete a poster on one of the five
major religions.