World religions What religions rule our world Look inside and find out (pg 610)
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Table of Contents Pg 6 = Buddhism Pg 7 = Christianity Pg 8 = Islam Pg 9 = Hinduism Pg 10 = Judaism
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buddhism
the world. This once sheltered man became the icon leader of a religion.
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Buddhism is not that much of a religion as it is a way of life.
Buddhism is not that much of a religion as it is a way of life. Buddhism is following an enlighten path of life. The person who made the Buddhism way was Siddhartha a noble that never left his home until his high 20s and then realized all the pain in the world he then lived an enlighten life which was the start of Buddhism. Buddhism doesn’t believe in god but the right path in life. Buddhist do not have a churches instead they have temples in which they go to and pray or meditate so they can always be on the right path of life. Siddhartha the maker of Buddhism and also known as the Buddha was born in 500BCE in a land named Nepal. He lived in his palace for his entire life without knowing the outside world. He started the Buddhism when he saw all the pain in the world when for the first time he left his house in his late 20s and saw all the pain and evil in the world. He decided to find spiritual enlightenment in life so he can counter all the evil in
Buddhist is to live a non-corrupt life Buddhist must live with the right view, right mind, and the right intentions and a number of other good things. Buddhist also meditate to help find enlightenment and to help walk the right path in life. To Buddhist finding enlightenment is there one of their biggest goals in life. Buddhist sees death a reincarnation. Rebirth to them is to be reborn as in a way you acted in your last life. If you were bad then you will be reborn in a bad life if you were good you would be reborn in a fulfilling life. All of the Buddhist belief is way to enlightenment and a good life.
Buddhism was all made in Nepal a mountainous country with more than 300million Buddhist. Nepal was the land where Siddhartha was born and raised within his own palace. Nepal is in southeast of china. Most Buddhist lives in or around Nepal.
Buddhism
Buddhism is a very unique religion because Buddhist can do their worshiping at home or a temple. Their why of worship is by meditation, chanting, and playing music because they are trying to reach enlightenment. Buddhism has a very important festival called Wesak. This festival is on the first full moon of May and that festival marks the Buddha’s birthday. Buddhist practice lots of things but all they do is just to find enlightenment like the Buddha.
In conclusion Buddhism is a religion that helps seek enlightenment away from evil and pain in the world. The Buddha the man who found enlightenment now has many worshipers that also seek enlightenment. Buddhism is a religion that can help be a better person and live a happy life though all kinds of practices.
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Christianity
Christianity
reason, Jesus was killing because he spoke the word and authority of god. Everything Jesus spoke of became Christianity is the Old Testament the world’s largest in the bible and afreligion with the ter he did a couple most worshipers. years’ later people This religion has a started to write wide range of a hismore of what he tory behind it. They said and that beworship 1 God in came the New Teschurches; the tament. leader of the church is the pastor. Christianity Christianity follows worshiper worship the teaching of Naz- God and Jesus in areth from Jesus. churches they visit Jesus is known as every Sunday and the messiah that Wednesday. When was promised in the they go to church Old Testament. the pastor of the church preaches of Christithe word of God anity was made though the bible. back in 80CE about 2000years ago, and the creator was Jesus, Jesus was known as gods son brought to earth to save us from our sins. So he spoke of the word of god to everyone and everywhere he went. Until he was crucified on a cross for an unrighteous
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Christianity is the world’s largest religion with the most worshipers.
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Islam
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Islam began in the Middle East about 1400 years ago.
Islam began in the Middle East about 1400 years ago. Islam was started by the prophet Muhammad. The Middle East is just one big desert and mountainous. Islam believes in only one god which they call Allah. Islam is a huge religion taking part in the worlds’ community. Muhammad started Islam about 1400 years ago. When Muhammad was forty the angel Gabriel came to him and told him to preach his beliefs. Muhammad founded Islam in Mecca, Saudi Arabia about 1400 years ago. Muhammad preached the word of god as told by Gabriel. These beliefs were later written down to become the Qur’an. Islam is a strong religion created by the prophet Muhammad. The geography of the Middle East is mountainous and has a lot of deserts. Islam is has the second most followers with about 1 billion. The followers of Islam live mostly in the Middle East but they are in a lot of other places too. The Middle East is mostly deserts and mountains. The Islam religion
has a lot of different beliefs. They believe that Allah is the creator of the universe. The followers’ main goal in life is to memorize the Qur’an. They believe that they must preach Muslim way of life to others. The followers of Islam have many beliefs in their religion.
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The Islamic faith has plenty of great practices. One of the practices is that every Muslim must perform a certain worship, some personal practices and five prayers a day. They also fast during the month of Ramadan. Each Muslim is required to make a pilgrimage to Mecca once in their life time to be where their religion began. The Muslims have few practices but each and every one of them are very important.
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Hinduism
Sikhism.
Hinduism is the world’s oldest religion dating back to 3000 BCE. It is also the world’s 3rd largest religion with 837 million followers. There are over 1.1 million Hindus in the U.S. alone. Hinduism is the dominate religion in India. They believe in one over all god. The Hindus worship their god which they call Brahman. The Hindus also refer to their priests as Brahma indicating that they are one with Brahman. People think that Hindus worship more than one god but they only worship one eternal god and the rest are just different aspects of Brahman. The different aspects of Brahman are Brahma (the creator god), Vishnu (the god that preserves the universe) and Shiva (the destroyer of the universe). The Indus Valley is located in what is now Pakistan. There are almost 340 million followers of Hinduism. Most Hindus live in India but that is not the only place they are found. Hinduism is also found in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bali and the U.S.A. Hinduism largely influenced other religions like Buddhism, Jainism, and
Hinduism
We do not know who founded Hinduism but the history is magnificent. It was founded in about 3000 BCE making it the oldest religion in the Indus Valley near the Indus River. The Hindus religious writing is called the Vedas. The word Vedas means knowledge. It was written around 1500 BCE. The Vedas was split into four parts; the Samhitas is the oldest part of the Vedas. Then there is the
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Brahmanas is telling them the different practices and rituals. There is also the Aranyakas which has the different ways of worship and meditation. Finally there is the Upanishads which tells of the teachings of hiduism.
Hinduism is the world’s oldest religion dating back to 3000 BCE.
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Judaism
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Judaism is a 4000 year of tradition on how to be human and also how to make the world a holy place
Judaism is a 4000 year of tradition on how to be human and also how to make the world a holy place. Judaism is having a covenant relationship with God. Abraham, Jacob, and Isaac, the origin of Hebrew people. The ancient writing for Judaism is the torah the first 5 books in the bible. Judaism has many holidays that last for many days. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the “promised land� after the fall of the Egyptians. The Hebrew monarchy that ended the 6th century BCE. Moses is the man who foretold the fall of the Egyptians and then he spoke of how it would come to be. He foretold the 10 plagues such as Death of Firstborn, Darkness, Locusts, Hail mixed with fire, Incurable boils, Pestilence, Wild ani-
mals, Gnats, Frogs, water turned into Blood. They all came true and helped all the slaves to escape.
Judaism
Judaism only believes in only one God and they read from the Old Testament or as they call it the Torah. The Torah is the Judaism bible. They pray at temples and celebrate many holidays. A holiday they celebrate is Hanukkah, Hanukkah is an eight day holiday and for each day they light a candle on each day of the holiday.
Judaism is a religion that shows its great belief in god in any way possible. Though there of showing it is very different. They still proudly worship god the best way they can. That is Judaism.