1. Chapter 6: Religion (Part 2)
The Cultural Landscape:
An Introduction to Human Geography

2. Diffusion of Religions
Key Issue 2 Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? (pg 178 – 191)
Diffusion of Religions
Diffusion of Universalizing Religions
What are the hearths of these types of religions based upon?
Diffusion of Christianity
Missionaries
Pagan
Diffusion of Islam
Diffusion of Buddhism
did not diffuse rapidly
who is responsible for its spread
Diffusion of Other Universalizing Religions

3. Key Issue 2 Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions
Key Issue 2 Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? (pg 178 – 191)
Lack of Diffusion of Ethnic Religions
Mingling of Ethnic and Universalizing Religions
Judaism, an Exception
Diaspora - ?
Ghettos - ??
Holy places
In universalizing religions
Buddhist shrines
Holy places in Islam = associated with the life of Muhammad
In ethnic religions
Holy places in Hinduism = closely tied to the physical geography of India
Cosmogony in ethnic religions

4. Diffusion of Universalizing Religions
Figure 6-17

5. Key Issue 2 Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions
Key Issue 2 Why Do Religions Have Different Distributions? (pg 178 – 191)
The calendar
In ethnic religions = celebration of the seasons
The Jewish calendar - ??
The solstice - ?
In universalizing religions = celebration of the founder’s life

6. Key Issue 3 Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways. Pg
Places of worship
Many types: Christian churches, Muslim mosques, Hindu temples, Buddhist and Shinto pagodas, Bahá’í houses of worship
Figure 6-19

7. Other ways of disposing of the dead Religious settlements
Key Issue 3 Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways? Pg
Sacred space
Disposing of the dead
Burial
Other ways of disposing of the dead
cremation
Religious settlements
Religious place names
Quebec – Ontario – United States

8. Religious Toponyms
Figure 6-21

9. Administration of space
Key Issue 3 Why Do Religions Organize Space in Distinctive Ways? Pg
Administration of space
Hierarchical religions-??
Latter-day Saints
Roman Catholics
Locally autonomous religions- ??
Islam
Protestant denominations

10. Roman Catholic Hierarchy in the United States
Figure 6-22

11. Key Issue 4 Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise? pgs195-203
Religions versus government policies
Religion versus social change
Taliban and Western values - ??
Hinduism and social inequality
Caste system -???
Religion versus communism
Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam in the Soviet Union
Buddhism in Southeast Asia

12. Key Issue 4 Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise? pgs195-203
Religion versus religion
Fundamentalism
Religious wars in Ireland
Religious wars in the Middle East
Crusades (Christians in Muslim lands)
Jews and Muslims in Palestine
Jerusalem - ????; Six-Day War 1967
Conflict Over The Holy Land: Palestinian Perspectives
???

13. Key Issue 4 Why Do Territorial Conflicts Arise? pgs195-203
Religious Wars in Ireland
Republic of Ireland
religion - ??
Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
what do most people in Northern Ireland want?

14. Distribution of Protestants in Ireland
Figure 6-23

15. Two Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
Figure 6-26

16. Israel’s “Separation Fence”
Figure 6-27

17. The End.
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