• Hinduism
• Founder: no distinct founder- series of intelligent or philosophical points of view.
• Example, "As a person puts on new clothes and discards old and torn clothes, similarly an embodied soul enters new material bodies, leaving the old bodies." This means reincarnation.
• Buddhism
• Number of followers: 500 mil to 1.5 billion
• Call them: Buddhists
• Geographic location: Southeast Asia, China, Nepal, Japan.
• 1.2 million Buddhists in the U.S.
• Founder: Siddhartha Gautama
• Denominations: Tibetan, zen, Theravada, Amidist
• 4 noble truths
• There is suffering
• Attachment to desire is the origin of suffering
• There is a cessation of suffering
• The Eightfold Path will lead to the cessation of suffering
• Right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, dedication
• Judaism
• Number of adherents, 14-18 mil (ninth)
• Call them- Jews
• Geographic location- Isreal, 6.4 million (75.4%) U.S, 5.3-7mil (1.7-2.6%)
• Founder: Abraham
• Holy book: The Torah
• beliefs: ethical monotheism- God is one and concerned with the actions of humanity.
• Ten Commandments
• 13 principles of faith.