Notes about Religion

Today in class we highlighted notes from the packet that we got in class yesterday called "6 Religions" some of the things that we highlighted were...

• Reliable statistics on the number of adherents are difficult to obtain 
• These four religions together claim the adherence of 77 percent of the world's people: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism
• Pew estimates that 2.2 billion people in the world view themselves as Christian, 1.6 billion as Muslim, 1 billion as Hindu, and 500 million as Buddhists
• In South Asia, around two-thirds of the people are Hindus and one-third Muslims
• India is 80 percent Hindu, whereas Bangladesh and Pakistan are more that 90 percent Muslim 
• Christianity has three major branches: Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox