Showing posts with label World Religions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Religions. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

What's the Golden Rule and the Green Rule?

 What's the Golden Rule?

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It is a maxim that is found in most religions and cultures

The idea dates at least to the early Confucian times (551–479 BCE), appearing prominently in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and "the rest of the world's major religions".


What's the Green Rule?

The Green Rule is derived from the classic Golden Rule found in major faith traditions, paraphrasing it by saying: "Do unto the Earth as you would have it do unto you."

Selected from many of the world’s great religious texts and spiritual teachings, the Green Rules were chosen to demonstrate that each religion and spiritual philosophy has a long-standing tradition of ecological stewardship...


Religions

Animated map showing how religion spread around the world
(YouTube  / Business Insider)

Monday, December 14, 2015

World Religions - YouTube Gems

Interactive maps are great but sometimes a short video can present the info in a more compelling way. YouTube is chock full of crap but there are gems aplenty as well.

History of Religions

Timeline on bottom is a nice touch

How Religion Spread Around the World

^ Fantastic!

1300 Years of Islamic History in 3 Minutes


^ Very Nicely Done

Thursday, September 18, 2014

The Middle East - Key Players, Islamic Branches and More...

The Middle East - Key Players and Notable Relationships


A forced-network visualization of key players and notable relationships in the Middle East created by David McCandless & UniversLab.


Islamic Sects, Schools, Branches & Movements

A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam.


Islamic Schools and Branches

This article summarizes the different branches in Islam


Thursday, September 19, 2013

Middle East History - Visual Quick Study

  - Note: Click on any map to enlarge it - 

Ancient History (B.C.)

Fertile Crescent

The Earliest Civilizations

3500 BC

Mesopotamia: First States and Writing

Bronze Age - 1400 BC

1450 B.C.
Fall of the Assyrian Empire
Egyptian and Hittite Empires 1290 BC 
 
Babylonian Empire 560 B.C.

The Persian Empire - 490 B.C.
The Persian Empire - 500 BC

Armenia - 50 AD

For Further Details


Roman Influence (A.D.)

Roman Empire - 200 AD
Roman Empire Divided - 450 AD


The Rise of Islam

Islamic Conquests 620 A.D. - 750 A.D.


Continual Turmoil

Byzantine, Seljuk Turks, Mongol and Crusader Influence
Byzantine Empire 1000-1100

The Seljuk Turks 1100

The Crusades 1096 - 1270
 
Mongol Empire - 1294


Ottoman Influence

1841- Ottoman Empire

1914 - Ottoman Empire


Post World War 1 - European Partitioning

1916 - The Sykes-Picot Agreement

1922 - Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire 

1940


Religions

1982 - Shiite Population

Distribution of Religions (Modern Day - Mediterranean and Middle East)


Further Study - Map Collections, etc.

TimeMaps > 
Great Chronological Succession of Maps, Timeline Based

Middle East Maps > 
Extensive Map Library



and finally… Conjecture for the Future