World Religions

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca (5)
  2. 5. A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH (6)
  3. 6. Believing that there is only one god (12)
  4. 8. The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books of the Hebrew (5)
  5. 9. Founder of Buddhism (10)
  6. 10. A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob and connected by cultural (3)
  7. 11. Country in the Middle East with Jerusalem (6)
  8. 13. A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on (8)
  9. 14. The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation (5)

Down

  1. 2. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (7)
  2. 3. Religious leader who leads worship (6)
  3. 4. A religious person who believes Jesus is the ___ and who is a member of a ___ denomination (plural) (10)
  4. 7. One who follows the teachings of ___ (8)
  5. 9. The place of worship for a Jewish congregation (9)
  6. 10. Central figure of Christianity, born in Bethlehem (5)
  7. 12. The first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac (7)