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This animated map shows how religion spread across the world
- luckyno13 11y agoHere is a non-facebook link - http://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-how-religion-spread-around-the-world-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-how-religion-spread...
- o0-0o 11y agoThanks for this.
- junto 11y agoAlso thanks from me. Can the URL be changed to the source?
- humbertomn 11y agoUnfortunately not, after 1 hour, I can't edit it anymore. The facebook URL does not require login, tho :)
- DrinkWater 11y agoincredibly inaccurate.
- fit2rule 11y agoHow so?
- anthonybsd 11y agoOne problem I spotted was this: Mongol Empire seems to be shown as being Islam while in reality it was multiple religions with Buddhism being the prevalent one.
- empath75 11y agoAs well as nestorian christian.
- mtviewdave 11y agoChristianity was far more widespread along the Mediterranean at the start of Islamic expansion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_7th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_7th_centur...
- ekianjo 11y agoAgree, it's completely over-simplified. And it's not like Christianity is a single religion either, they did not even show the main schisms - and Buddhism has multiple incarnations as well. Besides, There were other major religions before these 5 ones, and since they are not represented, they make it look like the world was "Godless" before they actually appeared.
- Mikeb85 11y agoInteresting, kind of inaccurate, and omits many belief systems. Also doesn't show the various interactions between religions, derivatives, etc... The easiest and most canonical examples would be how Mesopotamian (ie. Sumerian/Babylonian) religion influenced Judaism and Islam, or how Proto-Indo-European religion influenced northern European, Hindu and near-eastern religions.
- empath75 11y agoI think a more narrowly focused one that tracked 'furthest reach' rather than state religion would be more interesting.. like watching the near east from, say 2000-bc to 600 AD only... seeing the persians sweep through with zoroastrianism, then alexander with greek philosophy, then the romans, and buddhist and hindu missionaries, and so on..
- shas3 11y agoAlso: 1. It omits Manicheaism, which as I understand, had a significant following for a century or two. 2. I am kinda doubtful that Hinduism spread to Indo-China and Southeast Asia as early as 1000 BCE. The cultural diffusion happened much later, with the rise of the maritime kingdoms of Southern India. (One cannot really call it a religious conversion, since that concept isn't explicit in Hindu religious cannon)
- mkagenius 11y agoNice! Would be interesting to see population numbers along side it.
- fennecfoxen 11y agoWTB: the East/West Schism, Protestantism, Sunni/Shiite, and maybe a few of the different types of Buddhism.