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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Judaism
1)Considered to be the oldest monotheistic religion – ______
2)God is referred to as Yahweh, “I am who am,” and do not call him that or refer to him as that.
3)Their stories are collected in the Hebrew Bible or ______(Torah, Nevee’eem, Ketuvim). The people were ______from the land of ______-- therefore referred to as Judaism.
4)______is considered the founder of the faith, over 4000 years ago, and he made a ______- or agreement with the one God and moved his family to Canaan or the land god promised him. (Present day Israel).
5)In order to avoid death the Jewish people moved to ______and were enslaved, years later ______-, born a Jew, led them out of Egypt after the ______, and brought them back to the promise land.
6)Many famous leaders led the Jewish people, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon. They made ______their holy city.
7)______- built a temple to honor their god. That temple was later destroyed and then it was built again. The ______-then destroyed the 2nd temple and exiled them out of their empire and all that is left of the temple is the western wall or ______.
8)Throughout history they have always been seen as “different” and were often ______, blamed for things, and ______because of their faith.
9)They have still remained a close knit community. Basic principles of the 10 ______--, dietary laws, prayer, honoring the ______- (Saturday), charity, waiting for the messiah, and the synagogue are constants.
10)Branches of Judaism; Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism.
Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Christianity
1)The Christian religion grew out of the ______faith. Jesus, the founder, was born and raised a Jewish male in the land of the Jewish community outside of ______. He was raised by his “virgin” mother ______--and Joseph.
2)When he was around ______- he began to walk around teaching, healing and speaking to any who would listen. Because he taught and helped anyone he was labeled as a ______.
3)Those that followed him were called ______-. Later the twelve closest to him were called the twelve ______. Over time those that followed him were called Christians after the Greek word for ______-.
4)When Jesus preached to the people he told stories called ______- or short stories with a moral lesson. These lessons appealed to many people because he spoke in simple ways for all to understand.
5)Jesus was turned into the ______- authorities for blasphemy and organizing a ______-against the Romans. He was sentenced to death by ______-and was nailed to the cross so his followers______-. When he died he was taken down and placed in a tomb. It is believed that three days later he rose from the dead. This is known as ______or the resurrection.
6)After his death the ideas of Jesus where spread through the lands and his ideas grew. Many died for believing in them, ______-, and the religion spread rapidly through the Roman Empire. The faith was saved when Emperor ______converted and saved it.
7)Jesus main ideas where to: love god, love your ______, forgive and ______-. These simple ideas allowed the religion to spread. The patriarch of Rome became known as the ______and today is in charge of the ______Church.
8)As differences occurred the Christian Church began to divide, The Church of ______became known as Catholic, the Church of ______became known as Eastern Church. From the Catholic Church many groups broke off after the Protestant Reformation. Today there are about ______Christian Denominations.
9)Most Christian denominations believe in the Christian Bible, made up of the ______Testament (Jewish Bible) and the ______- Testament (stories of Jesus and after). The ideas of Baptism, Marriage, Easter, Christmas, the Cross and forgiveness are common in most.
10)Christianity is the largest religion in the world today, 2.1 Billion.
Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Islam
1)Islam means ______-. Someone who follows the Islamic faith is called a ______- or one who submits.
2)Muhammad is the ______-- of Islam and founder. The belief is that he was in a cave fasting and praying when the ______visited him and told him to be the last and final messenger of god or ______.
3)During this time period Muhammad recorded all the words of the Angel Gabriel in their holy scripture called the ______. It was during this time that Muhammad traveled from Jerusalem to the heavens and met with the great prophets, Moses, Abraham and Jesus. This is also known as the holy month of ______-. During this month many will make the ______to Mecca. They will also fast from sun up to sun down.
4)Muslims follow the ___ Pillars of Islam; proclamation of faith, the Salat (pray 5x a day), Charity, Fast during Ramadan, make a hajj to Mecca.
5)______is the holy city of Islam and is where Muhammad was born and raised, where he was inspired and where the ______(sacred shrine/cube from Allah) is located. This is where they must face when praying and must try to make a hajj.
6)When Muhammad began to preach he was not accepted by the Meccans because they feared he would ______network. He was eventually forced out and went to Medina where he converted the people there to his ideas. This became known as the ______or turning point in Islam. He returned to Mecca with an army of his followers and captured the city.
7)The religion of Islam spread more after his death under the 1st 4 ______or successor to the prophet. The religion spread rapidly during this time and took over much of the Middle East. During this time there was a division on who should be the successor. Those that supported that any right Muslim male could be caliph are called ______(majority). Those that said that it had to be a relative of Muhammad are called ______(minority).
8)The religion grew out of ideas from both the ______and the Christian faith. Muhammad called Jews and Christians “______” because they believed in the ______. He was just the final prophet. Not all Muslims are Arabs. An Arab is some one who’s native language is ______. However Arabic is the language of Islam and therefore most Muslims will learn the Arabic language.
9)Islamic house of worship is called a ______-. They will gather on ______to pray in unison. It is usually led by an Imam or ______. But it is not necessary because in Islam there is no need for someone to interpret the meaning like in other religions. This is also what makes Islam the most growing religion today.
10)The other main book in Islam is the Shariah or ______. It is the interpretations of the Qur’an in order for people to live a devout life. In many countries the Shariah is the basis for their everyday laws. Today the Islamic faith has over 1.5 billion members.
Hinduism
1)The chief religion of India, ______- no formal church/house, roots from ancient Aryan beliefs. It is a ______, a social system and culture. It shapes and unifies ______in India.
2)No 1 sacred text, multiple, all telling a different part of the religion.
- ______– defining scriptures, 4 books, most ancient
- Ramayana and Mahabharata, BhagwadGita, Upanishads
- Contains ______
- ______and epics- long narrative poems
3)It is ______, Thousands of Gods- ______,
- Each god is part of a single supreme force, ______
- Nameless, formless and unlimited
- Three main gods of Hinduism or ______
- ______- creator
- ______- preserver
- ______- destroyer
- Each god can take many ______, Each sect- ______- worship one or another these gods or their wives and children
4)Each person had an______- essential self or ______, that will never die and continue to live lives past the death of the ______.
5)True goal is ______- freeing the soul from body so that the soul can unite with Brahman, ______happen in 1 lifetime.
6)Follows the ideas of Reincarnation = ______. Body dies- soul may be ______as anything from a god to a flower to a snake but is only temporary, continues until soul reaches ______
7)______= duties and obligations/law of morality that you must follow. Obedience to caste rules or moral laws will improve ______by carrying their duties in this life
8)Karma means- “______”, law of cause and effect, Mental and physical deeds in life will affect a person’s ______, Present situation a result or past existence.
“Follow your ______and you will have good ______”
9)Broke society into the ______System (Varna). Based on four social classes and occupation, ______, Born into certain caste and remain there for life, Can marry only within cast
10)Most ______religion in the world today as it continues to grow and add new ideas to the old ones.
Buddhism
1)Siddhartha Gautama – born about 560 B.C- in ______, was a son of local ruler who kept him away from human sorrow because of the interpretation ______.
2) Escaped the palace and saw ______, dead man, and a ______, realized suffering of life, so he left family and wealth- set out to find out cause of ______
3)After six years of searching- sat ______under a sacred tree- reached ______, Understood cause of human suffering and its cure Became known as ______or “Enlightened one”
4)Buddha’s teaching = ______
- Suffering is ______= Everyone suffers pain, sickness and death
- Cause of suffering is ______=People desire riches and long life
- To end suffering you must ______= Give up desire-
- To end desire –follow Noble Eightfold Path
5)Eightfold Path = ______
- Understanding of suffering, ______for all creatures, kindness and truthfulness
6)If you follow the eightfold path you will achieve ______- freedom from the cycle of birth and death or ______
- Buddha thought himself as a ______, Believed salvation achieved when individual self escaped body, Believed in ______, but denied existence of any gods
7)After his death his ideas spread, however not in India or Nepal. Ideas were passed on by followers and eventually written in the a series of books called the ______
8)Two main sects developed after:
- ______-_-Buddhism= Stressed monastic life as way to reach nirvana, Buddha as teacher- not worshiped as god, Spread to Ceylon, Burma, and Thailand
- ______Buddhism = Spread to China, Tibet and Korea, Worshiped Buddha and other enlightened gods
9)Ideas flourished and took route in many other cultures because it answered what happened when you died. However Buddha did not want ______.