Religions!

                                                                          Religion

There are many religions around the world, and we were given five different religions to look up information about- Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. First Christianity, this religion was founded at about 30 AD in Palestine.  This religion is under the category monotheistic because Christians only believe in one god, and the Christians have a holy book called the Bible. About one third of the earth’s population consists of this religion and they all worship one central figure; which is God, and because there are a pretty high amount of Christians there isn't really one place where there is a huge collection of them, but there is a fair amount of them in the north. Next is Judaism, this was founded at around 1812 BC in the Middle East. Judaism is monotheistic because like Christianity they believe in one god. This religion has a holy book called the Torah, their central figure is God and also this religion has about 14 to 15 million followers.  Many of these followers are located in the United States and Israel. After that there comes Islam, which was founded at around 570 AD in Saudi Arabia, and this religion is monotheistic.  Islam has a holy book called the Qur’an and their central figure is Allah, which means God in Arabic. There are maybe 1.5 million people in the world that practice this religion, and many of its followers are found in Algeria. Then there is Buddhism, this religion was founded at about 580 BC in southern Nepal, and is polytheistic because they believe in many different gods. Their holy book is called the Tipitaka and the central figure in this religion is Shakyamuni Buddha. There are around 2 million followers to this religion and most of them are found in Tibet. The last religion we researched was Hinduism, this was founded in 3,500 BC in India and this religion like some of the others we looked at is polytheistic. There are a few holy books that accompany this religion, they are called Vendas and Upanishads, and there isn't really a central figure because there are just so many different figures in this religion. There are around 1.5 million followers and many of them can be found in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. I liked doing this assignment because I learned a lot of new things about other religions that I hadn't known about before.