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Christianity:

1. Christianity is founded by Jesus Christ in the middle east.
2. Also it is a monotheistic religion.
3. The holy book is the bible.
4. There is approximately 2.1 billion Christianity followers.
5. Of course the central figures are the father(god) son(Jesus) and holy spirit.
6. The geographical concentration is in the middle east, Bethlehem, Israel, United States and others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity

 Islam:

1. Islam is founded by Muhammad in the middle east.
2. Islam is also a monotheistic religon.
3. The holy book for this religion is the Qur'an.
4. There are approximately 1.6 or 1.7 billion followers in Islam
5. There central figure is Muhammad
6. The geographical concentration is in India, China, Russia and other European nations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam

Buddhism :

1. Buddhism is founded in south east Asia.
2. Buddhism is a polytheistic religion
3. Buddhism does not have a holy book
4. there are 350-500 million believers in Buddhism
5. the central figure is Siddhartha Gautama
6. the geographical concentration is in Asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism

Judaism:

1. Judaism is founded in the middle east
2. Judaism is a monotheistic religion
3. The holy book is called the Hebrew bible
4. There are 13.4 million Jews in 2010 which was 0.2 percent of the total population.
5. The central figures were Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and others from the old testament in the holy bible.
6. The geographical concentration is central or eastern Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism