Indo-European Language Family:

• Spread throughout Europe, the Americas, South Asia, and parts of SW Asia

• Largest language family in the world

  

Universalizing Religion: A religion that tries to convert new members

• spread through expansion and relocation diffusion

  • Migration, missionaries

• Christianity:

  • Hearth: Jerusalem, Israel

  • Largest religion in the world

    • 2.6 billion followers

  • Practiced in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Americas

• Islam:

  • Hearth: Mecca, Saudi Arabia

  • Fastest growing religion

  • Practiced in SW Asia, North Africa, Central Asia

  • Uses mosques to worship

    

  • Monotheistic

• Buddhism:

  • Hearth: India

  • Practiced in SE Asia and East Asia

    • spread through: Buddhist missionaries, Silk Road, Immigration

  • Nontheistic

  • Worship in stupas

    

• Sikhism:

  • Practiced in India

  • Use Gurdwaras for worship

    

  • Hearth: Punjab region

  • Syncretism of Islam and Hinduism

    • Monotheistic (Islam)

    • Reincarnation (Hinduism)

Ethnic Religion: religion that is generally found near the hearth or spread through relocation diffusion

• Hinduism:

  • Hearth: Indus River Valley

  • Worshiped with mandirs

    

  • Practiced in Mauritius, Nepal, India

  • Polytheistic, Reincarnation, Karma

• Judaism:

  • Hearth: Jerusalem, Israel

  • Practiced in Israel

  • Practiced in synagogues

  • monotheistic, uses Hebrew