5 major religions 1/3/19

Today in class we learned about the five major religions of the world. at number one was christianity it has around 2.2 billion adherents. It's geographic location is Europe, Americas, and South Africa. The holy book for christians is called the Bible, especially the New Testament. there beliefs are that Jesus is both human and divine, the son of God, Led a virtuous life, he was crucified, died, buried, and resurrected. He ascended into heaven where he reigns. Their clergy is the pope is the head of the church and priests are local authority. the second biggest religion was Islam it has 1.5 billion adherents people that follow this religion are called muslims. denominations are sunnis(75-90%),shiites (10-20%). founder was Muhammed holy book called the koran, Beliefs are monotheistic and Abrahamic. until my next human geo class bye.