Abrahamic religion


Abrahamic religion refers to those bodies of religious belief that claim descent from Abraham. These include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These originated in or near Israel, and are now the predominant world religions.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Institutions Religion Religious Traditions Christianity Islam Judaism

Abrahamic religion refers to those bodies of religious belief that claim descent from Abraham. These include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These originated in or near Israel, and are now the predominant world religions.

Christianity

I have divided this into five branches: Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Other Christianity, and Mormonism.

Islam

Islam can be divided into two major branches, Sunni, and Shi'ite

Judaism

Judaism has several branches or divisions which are not yet described here.


Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology may be connected to this. Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography is also important. Connections to anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be developed.	Links to other sites: Not yet available.
Culture including material culture is a significant part of Abrahamic religion. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be considered. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, and recreation and entertainment is important. Cultural events including miscellaneous events, meetings, holidays, and disasters are important. Other Institutions Abrahamic religion is connected to families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools can be connected. Economics including industries, economic activity, economic systems, and companies can be connected. This is connected to government, including law, government activity, and government structure. Particular governments such as local, national, and international government are also significant. This has connections with religious belief, and practice. organization includes unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured varietes. There are also close connections with Asiatic religion, secularism, and pagan religion. Sociology Social structure and change including social structure will be significant. Social types including hunting and gathering societis, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies may be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular changes is important. Communities such as Mexico City are important. Particular peoples are also important. Information on particular nations is not yet well developed, but will include information from Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, France, Congo, Italy, UK, South Korea. It is prominent in Western civilization, including Russia, Anglic peoples. Anglo-Americans including the United States, Candadian, and British Caribbean peoples are useful. British and Anglo-australians are also significant. Latin peoples including Brazil, Germanic, Northeast European, Balkan, and Scandinavian peoples will all be examined. It is also present in parts of Asiatic civilization including Bangladesh, and in cities of Tokyo, Seoul, most notably in Middle Eastern peoples. It is also influential in South Asian peoples including Pakistan, and Bangladesh, though not so much in India. It is much in the minority among oriental peoples of China, the Japanese, and Koreans. It is present in Southeast asian peoples including those of Indonesia, and central asian peoples. It is also present in African peoples including those of Nigeria. It is present more recently American Indian peoples such as in the United States and Brazil History Judaism, its oldest division of Abrahamic religion, can be dated to antiquity. Its roots in the 5th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC are obscure. Abraham may have lived in the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly the 2nd millennium BC. Moses, an important figure in the development of Israelite religion that became Judaism presumably lived sometime in the second millennium, but details are obscure. In the early first millenium BC, Israelite religion developed and events in most of the Old Testament took place. In the classical and medieval period, Christianity and Islam branched from it. In the early classical period, Judaism began to develop in something like its modern form. In the late classical period, Christianity arose and became the dominant religion of the Roman empire. In the early medieval period, Christianity spread throughout Europe and Islam came into existence as a conquering religion which overthrew many of the old pagan states, while Judaism was the religion of a scattered, despised and persecuted minority. In the late medieval period, Christianity was an important power in medieval Europe, Islam continued to spread, and Judaism survived in spite of persecution. Its modern history is being examined. In the 16th century, the Protestant reformation split Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant varieties. In the 17th, warfare and conflict between Catholics and Protestants continued. Details of the 18th centuries including the early 18th, early-mid 18th, mid 18th, late-mid 18th, and late 18th are lacking at present. In the 19th century, there was a great deal of missionary activity on the part of Christianity, as well continuing generation of Christian sects, though as yet I have few details for the early 19th, early-mid 19th, mid 19th, late-mid 19th, or late 19th century. More attention will be given to the 20th century. At the end of the early 20th century, the Islamic Ottoman was defeated in World War I, and most of the territory it had nominally claimed came under rule by Western nations. In the early-mid 20th century, resistance to rule by Christians on the part of Islamic peoples was a factor in the various independence movements in the period, and a Zionist movement among the Jews called for a return to the land of Israel. In the mid 20th century, a substantial portion of European Jews were killed in the Holocaust, which led to the development of the state of Israel. In the late-mid 20th century, the success of Israel led to considerable animosity on the part of Islamic peoples. Details of the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s are not yet clear. In the late 20th century, there was something of a resurgence of Islam. The early 1980s, late 1980s, and early 1990s can all be examined. The late 1990s including 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be considered. The early 21st century has more recent events. The early 2000s, including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and the late 2000s including 2006 down to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarters and 2007 including the 1st, 2nd, third, and fourth quarters can also be examined. Its future has not yet been examined.

Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology may be connected to this.

Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography is also important. Connections to anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups can be developed.

Links to other sites: Not yet available.

Culture including material culture is a significant part of Abrahamic religion. Conceptual culture including language, graphic arts, literature, mathematics, applied science, and philosophy can be considered. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, and recreation and entertainment is important. Cultural events including miscellaneous events, meetings, holidays, and disasters are important.

Other Institutions

Abrahamic religion is connected to families including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families. Education including research, teaching, cultural institutions, educational organization, and particular schools can be connected. Economics including industries, economic activity, economic systems, and companies can be connected. This is connected to government, including law, government activity, and government structure. Particular governments such as local, national, and international government are also significant.

This has connections with religious belief, and practice. organization includes unstructured, fragmented, and highly structured varietes. There are also close connections with Asiatic religion, secularism, and pagan religion.

Sociology

Social structure and change including social structure will be significant. Social types including hunting and gathering societis, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies may be connected. Social change including social change factors, social change processes, and particular changes is important. Communities such as Mexico City are important. Particular peoples are also important. Information on particular nations is not yet well developed, but will include information from Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Vietnam, Germany, Egypt, Ethiopia, Turkey, Iran, Thailand, France, Congo, Italy, UK, South Korea.

It is prominent in Western civilization, including Russia, Anglic peoples. Anglo-Americans including the United States, Candadian, and British Caribbean peoples are useful. British and Anglo-australians are also significant. Latin peoples including Brazil, Germanic, Northeast European, Balkan, and Scandinavian peoples will all be examined.

It is also present in parts of Asiatic civilization including Bangladesh, and in cities of Tokyo, Seoul, most notably in Middle Eastern peoples. It is also influential in South Asian peoples including Pakistan, and Bangladesh, though not so much in India. It is much in the minority among oriental peoples of China, the Japanese, and Koreans. It is present in Southeast asian peoples including those of Indonesia, and central asian peoples.

It is also present in African peoples including those of Nigeria. It is present more recently American Indian peoples such as in the United States and Brazil

History

Judaism, its oldest division of Abrahamic religion, can be dated to antiquity. Its roots in the 5th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC are obscure. Abraham may have lived in the 3rd millennium BC, or possibly the 2nd millennium BC. Moses, an important figure in the development of Israelite religion that became Judaism presumably lived sometime in the second millennium, but details are obscure. In the early first millenium BC, Israelite religion developed and events in most of the Old Testament took place.

In the classical and medieval period, Christianity and Islam branched from it. In the early classical period, Judaism began to develop in something like its modern form. In the late classical period, Christianity arose and became the dominant religion of the Roman empire. In the early medieval period, Christianity spread throughout Europe and Islam came into existence as a conquering religion which overthrew many of the old pagan states, while Judaism was the religion of a scattered, despised and persecuted minority. In the late medieval period, Christianity was an important power in medieval Europe, Islam continued to spread, and Judaism survived in spite of persecution.

Its modern history is being examined. In the 16th century, the Protestant reformation split Western Christianity into Catholic and Protestant varieties. In the 17th, warfare and conflict between Catholics and Protestants continued. Details of the 18th centuries including the early 18th, early-mid 18th, mid 18th, late-mid 18th, and late 18th are lacking at present. In the 19th century, there was a great deal of missionary activity on the part of Christianity, as well continuing generation of Christian sects, though as yet I have few details for the early 19th, early-mid 19th, mid 19th, late-mid 19th, or late 19th century. More attention will be given to the 20th century. At the end of the early 20th century, the Islamic Ottoman was defeated in World War I, and most of the territory it had nominally claimed came under rule by Western nations. In the early-mid 20th century, resistance to rule by Christians on the part of Islamic peoples was a factor in the various independence movements in the period, and a Zionist movement among the Jews called for a return to the land of Israel. In the mid 20th century, a substantial portion of European Jews were killed in the Holocaust, which led to the development of the state of Israel. In the late-mid 20th century, the success of Israel led to considerable animosity on the part of Islamic peoples. Details of the early 1960s, late 1960s, early 1970s, and late 1970s are not yet clear. In the late 20th century, there was something of a resurgence of Islam. The early 1980s, late 1980s, and early 1990s can all be examined. The late 1990s including 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 can be considered.

The early 21st century has more recent events. The early 2000s, including 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and the late 2000s including 2006 down to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quarters and 2007 including the 1st, 2nd, third, and fourth quarters can also be examined. Its future has not yet been examined.