1. The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography
Chapter 6: Religion
The Cultural Landscape:
An Introduction to Human Geography

2. Where Are Religions Distributed?
Seek to appeal to all people
Appeal to a smaller group of people living in one place

3. World Distribution of Religions
Figure 6-3

4. Where Are Religions Distributed?
------
The largest world religion (about - billion adherents)
Many adherents in ---, the -----
Three major branches
-----(51 percent)
----(24 percent)
----(11 percent)
Other, smaller branches of Christianity comprise 14 percent of all Christians

5. Distribution of Christians in the United States
Figure 6-2

6. Where Are Religions Distributed?
-----
The second-largest world religion (about --- billion adherents)
Significant clusters in the ----, ---, and -----
Core of Islamic belief = the ---- pillars
Two significant branches
---- (83 percent)
-----(16 percent)

7. Where Are Religions Distributed?
-----
About ---- million adherents (difficult to quantify)
Significant clusters in ---, ---t ---
The Noble Truths
Three branches
Mahayana (----, ---, ----)
Theravada (---- Asia)
Tantrayana (----, -----)

8. Where Are Religions Distributed?
-----
The third-largest religion in the world (---million adherents)
--- percent of --- are found in India
Many paths to spirituality

9. Where Are Religions Distributed?
Ethnic religions
Other ---- religions
---- (China)
---- (Japan)
Judaism (today: the United States, Israel)
The first religion
Ethnic African religions
----

10. Ethnic Religions
Buddhism
Hinduism
Figure 6-5
Figure 6-4

11. Religions of the United States

12. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions?
Origin of religions
-----: precise origins, tied to a specific founder
-----
Founder: Jesus
----
Prophet of Islam: Muhammad
Founder: Siddhartha Gautama

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

14. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions?
Diffusion of religions
Universalizing religions
-----
Diffuses via relocation and expansion diffusion
Diffuses to North Africa, South and Southeast Asia
----
Slow diffusion from the core

15. Diffusion of Universalizing Religions
Figure 6-6

16. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions?
Limited diffusion of ethnic religions
----- religions usually compete with ethnic religions
Examples of mingling:
----- with African ethnic religions
----- with Confucianism in China and with ----in Japan
Ethnic religions can diffuse with migration
Judaism =

17. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions?
---- places
In universalizing religions
----- shrines
= associated with the life of Muhammad
In ---- religions
= closely tied to the physical geography of India
Cosmogony in ----religions

18. Diffusion of Universalizing Religions
Figure 6-17

19. Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions?
The calendar
In religions = ---- of the -----
The -----
In ---- religions = ---- of the

20. Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways?
Places of worship
Many types: Christian -----, Muslim -----, Hindu ----, Buddhist and Shinto -----, Bahá’í -----
Figure 6-19

21. Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways?
Sacred space
Disposing of the dead
-----
----- of disposing of the dead
Religious -----
Religious

22. Religious Toponyms
Figure 6-21

23. Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways?
Administration of space
----- religions
-----
Locally religions
----

24. Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the United States
Figure 6-22

25. Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise?
---- versus policies
---- versus social change
---- and Western values
---- and social inequality
--- system
Religion versus -----
Eastern ---- and in the Soviet Union
in Southeast Asia

26. Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise?
Religion versus religion
------
Religious wars in
Religious wars in the -----
---- (Christians in Muslim lands)
---- and ---- in Palestine

27. Distribution of Protestants in Ireland
Figure 6-23

28. Two Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
Figure 6-26

29. Israel’s “Separation Fence”
Figure 6-27

30. The End.
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