GEOG 1123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Protestantism, Class Discrimination, Animism
23 Aug 2016
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Hinduism largest ethnic religion, the worlds 3rd largest religion (ethnic and universalizing) Chinese traditional, judaism universalizing religious 58% global to all people, appealing to all people culture and location do not matter distribution pattern is much broader than ethnic religions examples. Ethnic religions characteristics strong territorial and cultural group identi cation. 90% of hindus live in india (concentrated in mostly one country) worlds 3rd largest religion existed prior to recorded history. Aryan tribes of central asia brought language and religion. Judaism ~ 7% of people name derived from judah; israel is another biblical name for jacob many jews wanted to go to israel. Wwii had much to do with distribution of jews from europe to united states. Rst recorded religion to claim monotheism (belief in one god) Christianity and islam have some roots in judaism all began with abraham. Taiwan, and east asia have the other 4% syncretic a blending of di erent belief systems.
