January 30th and 31st, 2014
AP Human Geography Agenda
Religion
At the end of this unit, students will be able to:
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Discuss the differences between universalizing and ethnic religions
Explain the important components of the world’s major religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam,
Hinduism and Buddhism
Understand the importance of sacred spaces and holy places
Compare and contrast the different religious hotspot in the world.
Big Framing Objective
Understand the differences in
Universalizing and Ethnic Religions,
and explain hotspots of religious
tensions.
By the end of today, we will
1. Have a better sense of our assigned religious conflict
Part I: Do now – What do I remember? (5 minutes): Individual
What is the main issue with you religious conflict?
Part II: Religious Conflict Project (rest of class): Groups
As students are presenting these, fill in the chart. If you are not paying attention, I will not be happy!
Part III: Notecard write (if time): Individual
We have just scratched the surface in terms of religious conflict. But we know from what we have covered
in class (and what you know about religion) that there are more similarities than differences where
religion is concerned. What seems to be the common theme for why religious conflict exists? Is there a
universal solution?
Part IV: Do Later – what did I learn (end of class): Individual
Which conflict bothered you the most? Why?
What needs to be turned in at the
end of this class?
 Do Now Do Later
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UpComing Events:
2/3 and 2/4: Finish projects, Begin Ethnicity
2/5 and 2/6: Continue Ethnicity
What is due next class?
 Nothing
IF YOU LEARN ONLY 3 THINGS IN THIS UNIT:
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There are 5 primary relgions in the world today: Christianity, Islam, Judaism (the 3 “western”
religions) and Hinduism and Buddhism (the 2 “eastern” religions). Christianity is the largest
religion in the world with just over 2 billion followers. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the
world.
Religions are defined as monotheistic or polytheistic, and ethnic (born into) or universalizing (may
convert into).
There are architectual differences in religious structures around the world. Christians use
churches, Jews use synagogues, Muslims use mosques, Hindus use temples, and Buddhist use
pagodas.
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This Day in History
1649
1933
1948
1968
King Charles I of England was beheaded.
Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
Gandhi was assassinated.
North Vietnamese forces launched attacks
against the South Vietnamese, beginning the Tet
offensive.
1972 British troops opened fire on civil rights marchers
in Northern Ireland, sparking the "Bloody Sunday"
massacre.
1979 The Iranian civilian government announced that
the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini would be allowed to
return.
INTERFAITH CONFLICTS
Place
China (Tibet)
Nigeria
Interfaith Boundary
Tibetan Buddhism and
Atheism
Islam and Christianity
India
Hinduism and Sikhism
India and
Pakistan
Former
Yugoslavia
Hinduism and Islam
Central African
Republic
Muslim and
Christianity
Burma/Myanmar
Buddhism and Islam
Christianity and Islam
Conflict
The atheist Chinese government id destroying Tibetan Buddhist
monasteries, and overall trying to suppress the religion.
Islam prevails in the northern region while Christianity and local
religions prevail in the South. Lead to power based tensions for
government control
Sikhs in the NW state of Punjab demand autonomy from the Hinducontrolled government of India
Pakistan was established as a Muslim state in 1948. Pakistan and
India are fighting over territory called Jammu and Kashmir
In the Yugoslavian civil wars of the 1990s, Serb leader Slobadan
Milosevic tried to kill or evict the Muslim population in Bosnia and
the other Serbian controlled lands in the region
With its Muslim-Christian overtones risks escalating into sustained
violence along religious lines and spilling beyond the country’s
borders, further destabilizing the whole region
Though Muslims nationwide have been targeted, members of one
particular ethnic group, the Rohingya, have borne the brunt of the
violence. Many Buddhists view the Rohingya Muslims, who live
along the border with Bangladesh, as illegal immigrants, even
though many have been in Myanmar for generations.
INTRAFAITH CONFLICTS
Place
Iraq
Intrafaith Boundary
Islam: Sunni and
Shiite
US
Christian:
Fundamentalism and
moderate Christianity
Christian: Protestant
and Catholic
Northern Ireland
Conflict
After the fall of the largely Sunni government controlled by
Saddam Hussein, both Sunnis and Shiites are warring for
control of the newly forming political landscape
Christians have conflicted in the US over political-cultural
issues such as homosexuality, evolution, and abortion. In
some cases, violent tactics have been used
British Colonialism deposited large numbers of Protestants
in traditionally Catholic Northern Ireland. Has caused violent
conflicts between the 2 groups in the regions