Assignment:
Assistance in the below categories:
1. Countries: In this section, you should include the MAIN countries where people who practice these religion live. In most cases, it will be more than one country. However, don't just list all the countries where believers live. Choose no more than 5-10 (and in some cases considerably fewer) where most of the believers live
2. Historical Figures and Events: In this section, you should include the most important figures and events in the history of the religions. In some religions, there may be only a few. In others there may be many. But again, the idea is to include the MOST important ones.
3. Central Beliefs: Every religion has about a bazillion beliefs , but that doesn't make all those beliefs "central beliefs". Again, some research is required here to be sure you are listing the important ones. In Confucianism, that would include (at least) jen, li, and yi--so if you leave them out, you're going to lose points.
4. Nature of god(s): For some religions the answer to this section may be "They don't believe in god(s)." Or, perhaps, "They don't have any ideas about god(s)." And that's fine. For those who do believe in god(s), what is God like? Is s/he a personal God who is prayed to and who cares about his/her people? Is s/he (or are they) just creators who don't get involved? What characteristics does s/he (or do they) have? All powerful? All knowing? What kinds of things can/does s/he (or do they) do?
5. Texts: What are the religion's primary scriptures? Where is the information about the central beliefs, etc. of the religion written down? The answer is obvious in some cases (the Qur'an for Islam, for instance) but less obvious in others. And most religions have more than one text.
6. Ritual and Practice: What are the primary rituals and actions of the believers in the religion? Some of these would be the important holidays celebrated. Another thing you might include under Christianity, for instance, would be the sacraments, like baptism. For Muslims, this section would include the Five Pillars, among other things. For Hindus, the importance of bathing in the Ganges River would be included.
7. Ethics and Morality: Don't just list everything they believe. For example, you could say that Catholics (and some other Christians) believe abortion is immoral, and that's true. But that's a fairly minor issue. A larger, more important part of Christian ethics would be the Golden Rule. The same is true of other religions. In general, you shouldn't list a lot of individual issues (marriage, abortion, capital punishment, adultery, etc.) Rather, what I'm looking for here is the general rules/principles the believers follow to help them decide on any given issue what the right thing to do is.