Intro to World Religions Guided Notes

Intro to World Religions Guided Notes

Short Quiz Questions
for the End / Introduction to World Religions Guided Notes
Followers & Founders of World Religions

What is a Religion?
List the2 Types of Religions
1.
2.
WHICH MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION CAME FIRST?
→______

WHICH MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION CAME SECOND?
→______

WHICH MONOTHEISTIC RELIGION CAME THIRD?
→______

HOWEVER, This Polytheistic Religion came before ALL of these!
→______
Buddhism
Each section of the wheel represents a different goal that Buddhists have for living well.
______ / Religion / Followers / FOUNDER
Judaism / 14.5 million
2 Billion / JESUS CHRIST
Islam / 1.1 billion
Buddhism / THE BUDDHA
Hinduism / 820 Million
●A religion is an ______system of ______, ceremonies, and rules to worship a______or a group of ______.
●______religions believe in one god.
●______religions believe in many gods.
Order of Monotheistic Religions – Which Came First?
●_____ World religion → Judaism
Time Period that it Began ______
●_____ World religion → Christianity
Time Period that it Began ______
●_____ World religion → Islam
Time Period that it Began ______
JUDAISM
Name of deity is ______(God in Hebrew)
●______is the founder of Judaism.
●Followers of Judaism are called ______
●Follow the rules of the ______commandments.
●The ______of ______is the symbol for Judaism.
●Their holy book the ______.
○It is a long scroll hand-written in Hebrew → (traditional Jewish language).
●The leaders are called ______
CHRISTIANITY
Name of deity is ______
●Christianity was influenced by ______.
●Founder is ______→ the son of God
●Follow the rules of the ______commandments.
●Their holy book the Holy ______.
●Followers are called ______
●The Christian symbol is the ______.
●Leaders are called ______, ministers, preachers
ISLAM
Name of deity is ______(God in Islam)
●______founded the religion
●Their holy book the ______.
●The Islamic symbol is the crescent ______and ______.
●Followers are called ______.
●Leaders are called Ulama and Imam→ lead prayers
●Follow the 5 ______of faith to guide their life.
HINDUISM
●Hinduism is the world’s ______religion.
●There is ______founder(Or at least no one is sure)
●They do not have just one holy book→ ______is one example
●The symbol is the “AUM (OM)” symbol.
●Leaders are called ______, holy men, Brahmin priests
●Hindus believe in ______and reincarnation
●They use ______to reach a peaceful state called ______
BUDDHISM The ______is the founder Buddhism.
He was known as ______Gautama. He was a prince before becoming Buddha! Interesting!
Followers of Buddhism are called ______
Follow the rules of the ______path to reach nirvana.
The ______is the symbol.
●They do not have NOT holy book→ Dhammapada is one example
●Leaders are called ______and nuns