CWR. UI Review

According to Coach Trotter, Ascension requires Theology II / Contemporary World Religion...

• Because it's committed to help students better understand the world, including religious aspects

• Because it's committed to helping students become their best self -- intellectually, spiritually, etc.

• Because it's committed to helping students especially understand Christianity, which can be aided by comparison/contrast with other religions

• Because it's committed to loving one's neighbors, including people of other religions or no religion

• Because it's committed to the pursuit of Truth, including religious truths

Which religion is growing the fastest worldwide?

• Christianity

• Islam

• Unaffiliated

• Hinduism

• Other

Match the religion with its primary distribution area(s)

• India

• Sikhism

• Middle East, N. Africa, SE Asia

• Islam

• Asia Pacific (e.g. China)

• Buddhism and Unaffiliated

• Punjab region of India

• Christianity

• Americas and S. Africa

• Hinduism

Match the following religions with their percentage of the global population (Pew 2010)

• 31%

• Christianity

• 16%

• Islam

• 25%

• Unaffiliated

• 15%

• Buddhism

• 7%

• Hinduism

Which religion(s) makes up less than 1% of the global population (individually)

• Judaism

• Sikhism

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Islam

Belief in God and/or gods

• Theology

• Theism

• Atheism

• Agnosticism

• Pantheism

Belief in no God or gods (or lack of belief in God/gods)

• Theology

• Theism

• Atheism

• Agnosticism

• Pantheism

Literally means "no knowledge" (e.g. about God or gods and/or Ultimate Reality)

• Theology

• Theism

• Atheism

• Agnosticism

• Pantheism

Belief in one God

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Atheism

• Agnosticism

• Pantheism

Belief that Everything (or All, or the Universe, or Nature) is God

• Monotheism

• Polytheism

• Atheism

• Agnosticism

• Pantheism