Millionaire

Okay so first today was a weird day.. there was some rapping and singing and such to Slumdog Millionaire. Buy Mr. Schick's verison of Billionaire by Bruno Mars on iTunes!

NOTES...

Spatial divisions:
Examples of Spatial Divisions
-Political alliances
  -North Atlantic Treaty
  -Organization (NATO)

-Commonwealth of Nations
-Organization of American States (OAS) 

End of Cultural Geography Slideshow

Major Religions:

Christianity:
- number of adherents: around 2.2 billion largest in the world
-call them: Christians
-geographic location: Europe, the Americas, southern Africa

-Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants (Lutherans, Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians etc.)

more on Christianity:
-founder: Jesus Christ (it's Abrahamic in origin)
-holy book: The Bible, especially the New Testament
-beliefs: Jesus is both hum and divine - the Son of God; he led a virtuous life; he was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected; he ascended into heaven where he reigns with God the Father.  

Islam:
-number of adherents: 1.5 billion (second largest)
-call them: Muslims
-geographic location: Indonesia, Middle East, North Africa
- Dominations: Sunnis (75-90%) Shiites (10-20%)

more on Islam:
-founder: Muhammad (570-632)
-holy book: Qur'an
-beliefs: monotheistic, Abrahamic
  -Five Pillars (testimony, prayer, alms-giving, fasting, pilgrimage)
-Muslims see their purpose in life as serving and submitting to Allah (God), and observing Islamic law

Hinduism:
-number of adherents: 1.1 billion (third largest)
-call them: Hindus
-geographic location India, Nepal
-holy book: the Vedas - eternal truths revealed to ancient sages; composed in verse form (meant to be sung and easily memorized)

more on Hinduism
-founder: no distinct founder - it is a series of intellectual or philosophical points of view, rather than a rigid, strict set of beliefs - probably the oldest religion, although Hinduism is less a religion than a way of life, or a faith

Examples: "As a person puts on new clothes and discards old and torn clothes, similarly an embodied soul enters new material bodies, leaving the old bodies."

In other words.....reincarnation

Buddhism:
-number of adherents: 500 million to 1.5 billion (estimates vary quite a bit)
-call them: Buddhists
-geographic location: southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan (there are 1.2 million Buddhists in the United States.