chapter 6 review
1 Chapter 6 outline: Religion KEY ISSUE 1: Where Are Religions Distributed? universalizing religions-attempts to appeal to all people wherever they may live in the world the three main universalizing religions are Christianity, Islam and Buddhism branch-large and fundamental division in a religion; denomination-division of a branch that unites a number of local congregations; sect-relatively small group broken away from a denomination Christianity over 2 billion adherents and most widespread distribution predominant in North America, South America, Europe, and Australia (and Christian majority in Africa and Asia) branches of Christianity 3 major branches: Roman Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox