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Table of Contents:

1. Judaism                                       Page 1

     Leader & beginnings (Time-line)     Page 2

     Holy Writings & Guidelines             Page 3

     Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs             Page 4

2. Christianity 

     Leader & beginnings (Time-line)      Page 5

     Holy Writings & Guidelines              Page 6

     Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs              Page 7

3. Hinduism                                       Page 8

     Leader & beginnings (Time-line)      Page 9

     Holy Writings & Guidelines              Page 10

     Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs              Page 11

4. Buddhism                                      Page 12

     Leader & beginnings (Time-line)      Page 13

     Holy Writings & Guidelines              Page 14

     Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs             Page 15

5. Islamic/Muslim                              Page 16

     Leader & beginnings (Time-line)     Page 17

     Holy Writings & Guidelines             Page 18

     Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs             Page 19

6. Confucianism                          Page   20 

     Leader & beginnings               Page   21

     Holy Writings & Guidelines       Page   22

     Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs       Page   23

7. Connections to the world today Page   24

     Where, who why?                   Page   25 

Judaism 

Leader and Beginnings 

The leader of Judaism would be Abraham.

God chose Abraham to be the "Father" of 

the Hebrew people. God commanded him 

to move his people Canaan. For many 

years they moved from Canaan to 

Mesopotamia, to Egypt and back to 

Canaan. 

Holy Writings and Guidelines 

They followed the Torah, which 

is the first five books of the 

Bible.  

The ten commandments were 

also very important to them.

Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs 

Monotheism: Believed in One 

God; Yahweh.

Christianity 

Leader and Beginnings

Leader: Jesus

6-4 BC Jesus was born, died: 

29 AD. Christianity began to 

spread during this time. 

Holy Writings and Influence

The Bible. 

Nicene Creed: Basic Beliefs of 

the church. 

The New Testament 

Beliefs/Influence of Beliefs

Monotheism: One God. 

Humans need the grace of God 

to be saved. 

Hinduism 

Leader and Beginnings

Cannot be traced back to One 

founder with a single set of 

ideas.

Between 750 and 550 BC 

Hindu teachers tried to 

interpret Vedic ryhmes, later 

Upanishads were written. 

Holy Writings and Guidelines

Upanishads: Written dialogues 

between Student and teacher 

over the moksha. The state of 

understanding all things.  

Beliefs/Influences of Beliefs 

Reincarnation

Karma - Good Karma:Good life 

Bad Karma: Bad life 

Unifying Brahman and Atman. 

(World soul, Individual soul) 

Buddhism

Leader and Beginnings 

(Time-line)

Leader: Siddhartha Gautama 

He searched for enlightenment, 

after 49 days of meditation, he 

achieved understanding. He 

was the Buddha ("The 

Enlightened One")  

Holy Writings and Guidelines

Four Noble Truths

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