http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=b2P0DgXdC0s&feature=related

This is a video reliating to my post 'ASIA' talking about Islam, the fastest growing religion in the world. There are 3 people talking in this video, all who have converted to Islam.

ASIA

With a total of over 4 million people, Asia has the highest population in the world. Asia is home to many of the major world religions, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism. These include the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam. Many people in countries in Western Europe and in America are converting to Islam.

The second fastest growing religion in the world is the Baha'i faith. The majority of the population for this religion are in India. It is often considered an Abrahamic religion, although it is very different to any other Abrahamic religions such as Judaism or Christianity.

Some of the main religions in the world, including Christianity, Buddhism and Judaism have all originated in Asia. These have survived a long time, and are all still alive today, in Asia and throughout the world.

EUROPE

Europe used to be a place where the main religion was Roman Catholic. Then a guy from Germany, Martin Luther, decided to look deeper into the Catholic Church, and found many faults. The citizens of Germany and other countries were on Luther's side, and he developed a new religion, Lutheranism. This evolved into Protestantism quite quickly, and it spread throughout Northern Europe, whilst Southern Europe remained predominantly Catholic.

However, now Europe has moved into a post-religion stage, where people are making up their own minds about what they want to believe in. Although there is still a large number of Christians, there are also many people who are either agnostic (don't know what they believe) or atheist (don't believe in a God). There are also some minority religions, such as Islam or Judaism, which are generally within smaller immigrant groups. As well as the older religions, there are new religions being taken up by a very small amount of people, such as Scientology.

DISTRIBUTION OF WORLD RELIGIONS

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This is a map of the distribution of all major world religions. Different religions are represented by different colours. This is a clear way of showing the location of different religions.... (Click on the map to see it in greater detail)

AMERICA

We all know America as being a mainly Christian nation, and we're not wrong. There is about 80% of the population that say they are a christian. About 50% of the population are Protestant, this being the largest denomination. The next largest is Catholicism at about 25%, and the rest are made up of people in different denominations, such as Mormon.

But why is the Protestant religion so large? Around the year 1600, some people from England wanted to start a plantation in America. When they left England, they took their Protestant religion with them, and that's how Protestantism was born in America.

Some of the minority religions in America include Jewish, Buddhist and Islam.

There are also some people that do not "belong" to any religion. These people make up about 10-12% of the American population.

INTRODUCTION

Im Sarah. Im starting this blog on the geography of World Religions for an Enviromental Studies project. The project is to write on the geography of anything we want, so I chose World Religions as I think it is an interesting and diverse topic. There are so many religions in the world today, and new ones are being founded.