Adherents fast from dawn to sunset during one lunar month, give alms, and pray five times daily facing a holy city. What religion is described?

Worship often includes baptism and Communion, and believers center faith on Jesus as savior. What religion is described?

A tradition teaches karma, reincarnation, and moksha, offers paths of devotion, knowledge, and selfless action, and honors deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi. What religion is described?

Followers seek to end suffering by following the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. What religion is described?

A community keeps a Sabbath from Friday evening to Saturday evening and follows dietary rules such as keeping kosher. What religion is described?

A gurdwara hosts communal worship and a free shared meal called langar. What religion is described?

People visit shrines marked by torii gates, practice ritual purification, and honor kami associated with places and ancestors. What tradition is described?

Pilgrims bathe in the Ganges River at Varanasi because the river is understood as sacred. What religion is most closely tied to this practice?

A required pilgrimage for those who are able includes circumambulating the Kaaba in Mecca. What religion is described?

A Passover seder uses symbolic foods and retells the Exodus from Egypt. What religion is described?

Vesak, celebrated widely in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, marks the birth, enlightenment, and death of a religion's founder. What religion observes this festival?

Pilgrims visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. What religion is most closely tied to these sites?

The shaded countries share a majority religious tradition. Identify it from the map.

Use the shaded countries on the map to identify the majority faith.

The map highlights two neighboring countries where the same religion holds a majority. What religion is it?

A distribution map shades these South and Southeast Asian countries but not India. What majority religion is being mapped?

Use the map. Which religion does most of the population of the highlighted country follow?

Use the map. Which Christian branch do most people in the shaded countries follow?

The shaded countries are majority Eastern Christian societies historically tied to Constantinople. What branch is mapped?

The shaded northern European countries developed national churches after the Reformation. What Christian branch is represented?

The shaded countries are linked to the larger branch of Islam worldwide. What branch is mapped?

The shaded countries are among the main areas where a minority branch of Islam forms a national majority. What branch is mapped?

The shaded East Asian countries are associated with the Buddhist branch that spread through China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. What branch is mapped?

The highlighted Himalayan country is closely associated with tantric Buddhist practice and monastic leadership. What branch is represented?

Most Muslims worldwide follow the branch that held that the community could choose the Prophet's successor. What branch is it?

A branch of Islam holds that legitimate leadership should have passed through Ali and the Prophet's family line. What branch is it?

A Christian branch recognizes the pope in Rome as the supreme earthly authority over the church. What branch is it?

A Christian branch developed through Greek and Slavic churches and rejects universal papal supremacy. What branch is it?

A Christian movement from the 1500s stressed salvation by faith and the authority of scripture over papal authority. What branch is it?

A Buddhist branch uses the Pali Canon and emphasizes monastic discipline in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. What branch is it?

A Buddhist branch emphasizes the bodhisattva ideal and became prominent across East Asia. What branch is it?

A Buddhist branch uses tantric rituals and is closely associated with Tibetan religious institutions. What branch is it?

A Jewish branch teaches that traditional halakha was given by God at Sinai and should not be changed to fit modern life. What branch is it?

A Jewish movement that grew in nineteenth-century Europe treated many ritual laws as adaptable and emphasized ethical monotheism. What branch is it?

The shaded countries have a long-standing Eastern Orthodox majority. What best explains that regional pattern?

The shaded countries became strongly Roman Catholic. What historical process best explains that distribution?

The shaded northern European countries became mainly Protestant rather than Roman Catholic after the 1500s. What explains that pattern?

The shaded countries are predominantly Sunni Muslim. What best accounts for that broad distribution?

The shaded countries include the main national centers of Shia Islam. What historical factor most shaped this pattern?

The shaded countries are centers of Theravada Buddhism. What best explains that shared pattern?

The Torah, the Talmud, and a festival calendar tied to the ancient Levant are central to what religion?

The Qur'an and hadith guide law, worship, and daily practice in what religion?

The Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagavad Gita are sacred texts in what religion?

The Guru Granth Sahib is the central sacred scripture of what religion?

The Tripitaka, also called the Pali Canon in one major branch, is a sacred text collection of what religion?