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In anthropology there are many interesting issues that can be looked at. Religion is one of the topics of anthropology that can be broken down into so many different ways. The major issues in religion are the different religions, their beliefs, and their practices. Every person has a religion, whether it be Buddisim, Judaisim, Baptisim, and even Atheisim. Religion plays a very important part in all our lives. If there were no such thing as religion then people would have very little morals and values. It is what keeps people living and hoping.

All religions have a belief in an afterlife and no one wants a negative afterlife. Christians beleive in a heaven and hell, whereas buddists believe in reincarnation. Heaven is believed to be a place where you live for eternity in peace and harmony. It is reward for following the Ten Commandments, and being good at heart. Hell is a place where you go when you did not accept Jesus into your life. It is a place where you are damned for eternity to live agony and misery. Reincarnation has a different idea for a person's afterlife. If pure at mind then they are reborn a fortunate birth, but if miserable and angry at death they are reborn a unfortunate rebirth. Theses beliefs can provide a certain level of dicipline because the fact of living in eternity in misery or coming back to life as a person who is tortred can make a person follow the rules set by the religion.

Definition
Religon is the beliefs and actions related to supernatural beings and forces. There are hundreds of religions out there in the world including cults, Judaism, mythology, and even Rastafari movements. The three most common religions are Christianity, Islam, and Agnostic or nonreligious. Christianity is the first largest religion in the world. It is so common because it can be broken down to so many other religions such as Catholicism, and Protestantism.

Christianity
Christianity is currently the largest religion in the world. It is followed by about 33% of all people -- a percentage that has remained stable for decades. If current trends continue, Islam will become the most popular world religion sometime in the mid-21st century. Christians follow what is called the bible. The bible has two eras that the books are located in; the old testament and the new testament. Each testament has a collection of books such as Genesis, Psalm, Corinthians, and Revelation. The books explain about the beginning of time, Moses, and the teachings of Jesus.

Islam
Islam, the second largest religion, has about 1.5 billion followers. Most Islamics are found in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. But, the largest muslim country is Indonesia, where the most Muslim people live. It is a very early religion that started back as early as the B.C. era. It is a monotheistic religion, that is originated by the prophet Muhammad. Islam is also known as Muslim. Unlike the Christian belief of Jesus being the Mesiah, Muslims believe he was only a prophet. They believe Muhammad is the one who God revealed the Quaran to, and one who restored the religion. As there is a worship book for Christians, there is a worship book for Muslims called the Quaran. The Quaran is considered the word of God, literally. it is divided into 114 different chapters. The Quaran usually guides people and their morals and values.

Like Christianity and it's churches, Islam has it's Mosques. A mosque is a place of worship. Muslims use the building as a gathering to study the quaran and its teachings.

Agnosticism
Even though being Agnostic is not considered a religion, it is the belief that a god can not be proven or disprovened. They cannot beleive the stories that say there is a god and the stories that try to say there is no god. It is their ultimate reality. But even though agnostics do not follow a written system of morals to follow, they come up with their own morals.

There are many types of Agnosticisim such as, Absolute, and Apathetic. They are the degrees of a person's agnosticisim. Absolute, being a stong beielf that it is impossible that any one can verify a reason for existance. Apathetic, being the people that believe only logic can explain and answer the questions people have.