Geographical teens

Inside: Religions streaming from Christianity to Buddhism 

Informing teens on global issues Volume No. 1Issue No. 1 5/28/09

Contents

Christianity:  a little background information on the worlds largest religion. It is also the largest monotheistic religion in the whole world.  PG.2

Hinduism:  describing the oldest religion. But it can also be the third largest religion in the would that is not a monotheistic religion but a polytheistic   PG.3‐4

Judaism:  talking about a twist on Christianity. it’s a twist on Christianity becouse they believe in most of the religious leaders in christaianity but they  don’t believe that jesus is the son of god.  PG.5‐6

Islam:  explaining the Middle Eastern controlling religion. It’s the largest and basically the only religion in middle eastern that is so well practiced and also very well respected.   PG.8‐9

Buddhism:  One of the most spiritual religions.  Buddha is not a god but a religious leader that stands for peace and tranquility.  PG.10‐11

Author: Andrew R. Javier R.Denise R. 

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ChristianityChristianity is the largest monotheistic religion in the world. There are several examples that show this and one of them is the 

foundation of the religion. The formation of this religion is interesting so this is probably why it is the largest monotheistic religion. Another example that helps support the geography of the religion it was founded. Christianity was founded in a much altered place. The beliefs of Christianity are very lenient. The commandments can be broken as long as you repent you sins. The practices of Christianity are very self giving. The use of prayer is to help yourself out.  

Christianity is special in its founding because this is the only religion in which the son of god was given revelations. Jesus is believed to be the son of God. The religion of Christianity was founded by Jesus. Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God and died on the cross to forgive our sins. Christianity was founded in 30 A.D. The religion of Christianity was founded after Jesus was the son of god. The king of Jerusalem was afraid that Jesus was going to overtake the thrown from him.  In conclusion Christianity is the largest prayer concentrated religion. 

Christianity is the biggest religion in the world. There are over 1.5 billion followers. All of the beginning followers lived in Jerusalem. Jerusalem has had a complete geographic feature change. Early Jerusalem was covered in trees. The beliefs of Christianity have spread through the world. Most live in the U.S. but they are all also around the world. Christianity isn’t very different from other religion. 

Christianity is God centered. The role of God in the Christians community isn’t as different as other religions. Christianity go to church to pray or be forgiven for their sins if they break one of the 10 commandments. Christians pray to god. God will return the favor and give you what you prayed for. God has a big impact on the Christianity community because they are afraid to spend all eternity in hell. Christianity believes that the only way you will son to hell is if you don’t repent yourself from your sins. The geography of Jerusalem is very unique. 

Finally Christianity has a unique place of worship. Christianity has a place of worship just like many religions. They prey in churches which is the house of worship. Christianity has religious leaders such as pops and fathers. The pope is the administrator of the doctrine. Prayer in Christianity is used to help one’s self with their problems. Prayer is also used in there holidays. Christianity is a very prayer surrounded religion. 

In conclusion Christianity is the largest religion. It is also the most prayer concentrated religion. Christianity isn’t very believes they have communicated with God. The geography of Jerusalem is very unique. This is because this is where the life and death of Jesus was. Also because it has had a complete change over the years. Christians are unique with their practices. Everything they do is apprentice.          PG.2

This is a picture of a cross. Jesus died on the cross.

HinduismHinduism is the oldest religion that we know of and it 

is the third largest religion in the world. The first place to start with is talking about the formation. This religion was founded in 3000 B.C.. The next subject is the geography of the religion it was founded. Hinduism was founded in Pakistan. The third good example is the beliefs in the religion. This religion is the only polytheistic religion that we have covered. Another reason that this religion is interesting is that practices. There practices are always in front of Gods. 

As I said, Hinduism was founded around 700 B.C. Hinduism is unique in its founding because there is no recorded founder. Other religions usually have a founder that was spoken to by god. 700 B.C. is an estimation made to it beginning. The reason for this is also because Hinduism has no actual date of origin. Some believe that Hinduism has existed for eternity. Aryans are thought to be the founders of Hinduism. Aryans are an indo‐ European culture. As you can tell I put these facts first because they are very special. 

The religion of Hinduism was founder in the Indus valley or Pakistan. Pakistan combines land from France and U.K.. Back when Hinduism was founded, this area was in a severe drought. About 14 percent of the percent of the world’s population are Hindus. To clear that up, around 900 million people are Hindus. All of the early Hindus lived in the Indus Valley. Just in case you are confused, Pakistan is now Indus Valley. The religion that Hinduism was founder is as interesting as the formation. 

This is a picture of one of the Hindu gods.   

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The beliefs in Hinduism are very unique compared to the other religions. Unlike all the other religions we have covered, Hinduism is a polytheistic religion. A polytheistic region is a religion in which there are many gods. They believed that there are three main gods. The individual plays no key role. They are to pray to the gods to prove their love for them. The role in god is if your good and live a decent life you will have a lot 0in your next life. God will give you a wealthy life if you’re good.

There are a lot of interesting things and important things about the practices of Hinduism. The best example to start with is where Hindu’s worships there god in many places. For examples they like to worship temples or shrines. There are two different kinds of religion leaders. The different kinds of religious are he gurus or the sage. Not only Hindus enjoy preying because they can sing. Hindu’s enjoy preying because they think that if you live a good live god will help you, and your after life will a good one. Hindu’s celebrate many things. They celebrate Mahashivarati (mid-February), Holi (Spring), Ramnavami (late March), Dusserah (early November), Diwali (mid-November).

Hinduism is one of the oldest and most interesting religions. You have learned all about the way the religion was formed. You learned some of the most interesting topics of Hinduism. Some of the other things you learned were the geography like where the religion was found. Also the number of believers was included and where most Hindu’s live. As you went though this article you also saw information bout what the beliefs of Hindus are. You also learned about the different practices of the religion. This article is really helpful to people who want to learn about Hinduism.

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JudaismJudaism is a monistic religion along with many others. A good majority of Hebrews lives in Israel.  Judaism began in a small nation of 

Hebrews. Judaism was founded around 1300 B.C. There are currently approximately 13.2 million Jews. Furthermore, Judaism was found by a man named Abraham. It is believed that God came to Abraham. Abraham wrote these revelations into the torah, which contains 613 

Commandments. In additional to the first two, the beliefs of Judaism are unique but are also similar to other monotheistic religion. Judaism requires praying in synagogues. 

As we mentioned Judaism began in a small nation of Hebrews. The Hebrews lived in servitude in Egypt, but later moved to Canaan.  It is said that Judaism was founded around 1300 B.C. It is said that it began when Abraham was commanded by god to move to Canaan. Currently there are about 13.2 million Jewish people. The Jewish community no longer only lives in Israel; instead they are all over the world. In Israel 

there are many geographical features. Some examples would be the Negev desert and the Great Rift Valley.Judaism was founded by a man named Abraham. It is believed that God came to Abraham. He received revelations from God. As you

might know Abraham wrote these revelations into the torah, which contains 613 commandments. This also appeared in other religious history such as the encounter with the burning bush and Moses. Those commandments were written in five books. These books are known as the Old 

Testament.  The New Testament comes from the religion of Christianity, which is another monotheistic religion. 

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This is the religious symbol that represents the Jewish community. 

Judaism requires you to pray in synagogues. Synagogues are the equivalent to churches and temples. Judaism has one role in the synagogues, and they are 

Rabbi’s. In Judaism there are no real leaders there’s only rabbis that teach Judaism. This religion is unique because of its self relying faith.    Most importantly Jews have celebrations and rituals that are very important to the Jewish community. Such celebrations are the bar mitzvah, and Honokaa.  Jewish celebrations resemble to 

Christian holidays.

In this paragraph I will explain the relationship between god and the followers. Jewish people believe that there is one god. That god is here to punish 

the bad and award to the good. This god is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient. It is said that man is made in resemblance of god. As I said before, god punishes the bad, and awards the good. The Jewish community calls this karma. As 

you can see, god and man are very intertwined with each other. 

The evidence clearly points out that Judaism is one of the first monotheistic religions. Initially, Judaism came from an interesting place and has an interesting background.  The county it came from is specific in its geography. Judaism has an interesting founding. It is based off of revelations that came from God. Judaism is much like other religions they have rituals and celebration that each is important to the Jewish Community. They are like many other religions but are Unique because of 

where how they celebrate these religions. 

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This is a picture of  a Menorah  it represents the 8 days of Hanukkah. 

Presented to you by the U.S Navy. 

IslamIslam is one of the oldest monotheistic religions. First of all, the 

creator of is Islam is Muhammad. Allah, which is god in Arabic, gave Muhammad revelations. In addition to that, The Islamic religion started in Mesopotamia. Most of its followers live their today.  Accordingly, Islam is a monotheistic religion. that is when people believe that there  is only one god and that is Allah. Most importantly, Islam believers pray to Allah while they are sitting down in a temple meditating.  

The revelations that Muhammad had are very important to the Islam people. The creator of Islam is Muhammad. the Muslims view him not as the creator of a new religion but as the restorer of the original uncorrupted monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham and Allah. Angel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad and gave him a complete revelation. Later on the revelation was recorded and became the Qur’an, The holy word of the Islamic religion. This religion started in 627 A.D Muhammad was walking around until Allah appeared to Muhammad and gave Muhammad revelation in which he in returned turned it in to 5 Pillars. The five pillars shahadah, Salah, zakat, Sawn, Hajj, Each one stands for something important in the religion. Muhammad plays a key role in the Islam religion, And without him receiving the revelation, there would be no Islam. 

The geography of Islam is very vast and it is very well spread out through Mesopotamia. The religion of Islam started in Mesopotamia. it lays between Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It is a region with rivers and vast mountain rang.  There is currently 1.8 billion Islam believers in the world, and that number of worldwide believers is still growing today with the count of people everywhere changing religions.  The most number of believers have always lived around Mesopotamia and India and they still do today. Mesopotamia is the main place where most of the Islam believers live at today. As you may conclude by the information given above, Mesopotamia is a very important part in the religion of Islam. 

This is another religious symbol that represents Islam.  

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Just like all the aspects of this religion the beliefs of Islam are very interesting. Islam believers have always beloved in one god. That god is Allah stands for peace. But that is the reason why the Islam prays for.  They also believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is when you die they believe that you get reborn in a new body. They also believe that if you have a bad life it’s because last time you were reincarnated you did bad things to get to that point in life were you are right now. The beliefs of this religion isn’t very different form other religions. 

The practices of Islam aren’t very different form other religions. Islam people pray to their one god witch are Allah he stands for peace and that’s what the Islam people pray for. They go to temples and sit and meditate for hours but while there doing this they are praying to Allah for peace. The religion of Islam doesn’t really have any leader in their place of worship all they do is just pray in mats. The practices of Islam are very similar to Buddhism and Hinduism because they both go to temples and sit on mats to meditate and pray to their gods. The religion of Islam doesn’t really have any leaders in their place of worship. All they really do is just sit a mediate and pray to Allah. The practices of this religion is very similar to other religions because they also pray to their gods or god but the only difference is that they sit and meditate while their praying. 

The revelations that Muhammad received form Allah are very important to this religion. Without those revelations that he received there would be no Islam. The geography of Islam is very important because of the number of believers. In other words, because it has so many followers, it shows that Islam is very vast and beautiful religion that spreads out all throughout Mesopotamia. The beliefs of Islam aren’t so different from other religions. It is the ways they worship that is different. The practices of Islam are unique in the way that there is no priest or any kind of religious leaders in Islam they worship a shrine or go to temples to pray to Allah. The religion of Islam is very beautiful in the sense that a lot of its followers devote their life to Allah. 

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This is a symbol of Islam. 

BuddhismBuddhism is a very old religion that separates itself from other religions because they do not believe in a god. Probably the best

example to begin with is its founder. He was on a spiritual path to Enlightenment. He had lived a good life, until he viewed the outside world. Nepal had a very diverse geography. The attitudes in Nepal vary with the climates. There is no real purpose to the role of Buddha; it’s just inner peace with one’s self. They use mediation to become in lighted with one’s self. Buddhist has other places of worship like many other religions

such as a temple or a shrine.

The formation of this religion is extremely different from others. The creator of Buddhism is Siddhartha but he is better known as Buddha. He was born into royalty until he was old enough, in which he saw poverty and other problems of the world. This religion was founded in 500 B.C in Nepal. The reason why that is because Buddha was sitting under a tree waiting for in lightens to strike him. Buddha doesn’t have a

real role the religion. Buddha is just trying to show people how to see the world differently, and how people can actually reach enlightenment. People that believe in Buddha use a method such as meditation to reach enlightenment. As you can see Buddha has greatly differences

from other religions.The geography of Buddhism is similar to many other religions but to similar. Probably the best place to start with is the geography

of Nepal. It's very vast and filled with many different types of weather. Nepal had vast deserts with gigantic mountains. One the other hand there were about 376 million followers worldwide. There are currently about 1.2 billion followers. The believers are pretty much all over the world,

but a great proportion of them live in China, Nepal and India. Buddhism tends to stay more in the countries of the East. Buddhism is an Unusually fast growing religion forms a usual place which makes it more interesting.

This is a picture of Buddha sitting under a tree meditating.

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There is no real God in the religion of Buddhism it's just a way of life. To begin with the Buddhism religion betters your way of life. This religion

includes, you meditating, performing acts, to make you feel better, and think of life in a positive way. Buddhist believes in Karma. This means all actions you do will affect you later in life or in the future. They believe in the four novel truths. These are the truth of suffering, the truth of other cessation of suffering, the truth of path to the cessation of suffering. The beliefs in Buddhism is very self based, which is

very unique. The religion of Buddhism can be worship in many different ways.

Buddhist can worship in temple or a shrine where people sit down and meditate. The most important holiday for a Buddhist is Vesak. This is the celebration of

Buddha’s birth. It starts on the first full moon in May. If it is a leap year the festival will be held in June. The people who teach Buddhism are monks. They have to go

through years of teaching. Buddhism is a very interesting religion when it comes to worshiping.

As you can see Buddhism is a very captivating religion extending from its formation. A man proving that you don’t need worldly possessions to live peacefully. Also it’s founding country’s grand geography. Nepal, a place where its weather and land formations are as interesting as the religion it’s self. Buddhism has an interesting way of worshiping. You can meditate to clear you soul. Its only

need is to better your life. This religion should be but on high because of how wonderful it is.

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A picture of how Buddha looked. 

All the worlds religion