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© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 5: Religion

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Where Are Religions Distributed? Universalizing religions –Seek to appeal to all people Ethnic religions –Appeal to a smaller group of people living in one place Tribal or Traditional Religions –Ethnic religions of groups that lie outside of mainstream culture Often Animistic, or Shamanistic

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. World Distribution of Religions

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Where Are Religions Distributed? Universalizing religions –Christianity The largest world religion (about 2 billion adherents) –Many adherents in Europe, the Americas Three major branches –Roman Catholicism (51 percent) –Protestant Christianity (24 percent) –Eastern Orthodox (11 percent) »Other, smaller branches of Christianity comprise 14 percent of all Christians

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Human Geography 11e Christianity Universalizing Middle East origins Diffusion –Expansion – European Imperialism –Hierarchical From provincial capitals to smaller settlements –Contagious –Relocation © Corbis RF

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Distribution of Christians in the United States

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Where Are Religions Distributed? Universalizing religions –Islam (Middle East) The second-largest world religion (about 1.3 billion adherents) –Significant clusters in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia Core of Islamic belief = the five pillars Holy Book: Koran, Shariah Two significant branches –Sunnis (83 percent) –Shias or Shiites (16 percent)

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Islam © Photodisc/Getty RF

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Where Are Religions Distributed? Universalizing religions –Buddhism - South Asia origins About 400 million adherents (difficult to quantify) –Significant clusters in China, Southeast Asia The Four Noble Truths Three branches –Mahayana (China, Japan, Korea) –Theravada (Southeast Asia) –Tantrayana (Tibet, Mongolia)

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Where Are Religions Distributed? Ethnic religions –Hinduism World’s oldest major religion The third-largest religion in the world (900 million adherents) 97 percent of Hindus are found in India Many paths to spirituality – Dharma and Karma Reincarnation and Caste

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Human Geography 11e Patterns and Flows Diffusion patterns Insert figure 5.20

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Where Are Religions Distributed? Ethnic religions –Other ethnic religions Confucianism (China) Daoism (China) Shinto (Japan) Judaism (today: the United States, Israel) –The first monotheistic religion Ethnic African religions –Animism

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Judaism Ethnic religion Middle East origins Diaspora Two separate branches of Judaism developed in Europe during the Middle Ages: –Sephardim (Iberian Peninsula) –Ashkenazim (Eastern Europe) Zionism –The belief in the need to create an autonomous Jewish state in Palestine

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? Origin of religions –Universalizing: precise origins, tied to a specific founder Christianity –Founder: Jesus Islam –Prophet of Islam: Muhammad Buddhism –Founder: Siddhartha Gautama

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? Origin of religions –Ethnic: unclear or unknown origins, not tied to a specific founder Hinduism –No clear founder –Earliest use of Hinduism = sixth century B.C. –Archaeological evidence dating from 2500 B.C.

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? Diffusion of religions –Universalizing religions Christianity –Diffuses via relocation and expansion diffusion Islam –Diffuses to North Africa, South and Southeast Asia Buddhism –Slow diffusion from the core

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Diffusion of Universalizing Religions

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? Limited diffusion of ethnic religions –Universal religions usually compete with ethnic religions –Examples of mingling: Christianity with African ethnic religions Buddhism with Confucianism in China and with Shinto in Japan –Ethnic religions can diffuse with migration Judaism and the diaspora

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? Holy places –In universalizing religions Buddhist shrines Holy places in Islam = associated with the life of Muhammad –In ethnic religions Holy places in Hinduism = closely tied to the physical geography of India Cosmogony in ethnic religions

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Diffusion of Universalizing Religions Figure 6-17

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? The calendar –In ethnic religions = celebration of the seasons The Jewish calendar The solstice –In universalizing religions = celebration of the founder’s life

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways? Places of worship –Many types: Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, Buddhist and Shinto pagodas, Bahá’í houses of worship

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways? Sacred space –Disposing of the dead Burial Other ways of disposing of the dead –Religious settlements –Religious place names

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Religious Toponyms

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways? Administration of space –Hierarchical religions Roman Catholics –Locally autonomous religions Islam Protestant denominations

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the United States

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise? Religions versus government policies –Religion versus social change Taliban and Western values Hinduism and social inequality –Caste system –Religion versus communism Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam in the Soviet Union Buddhism in Asia/China

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise? Religion versus religion –Fundamentalism –Religious wars in Ireland –Religious wars in the Middle East Crusades (Christians in Muslim lands) Jews and Muslims in Palestine

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Two Perspectives on Palestine/Israel

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Israel’s “Separation Fence”

© 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Power of Place 14Power of Place 14.