Religious Traditions and the Arts

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation with speaker notes that explores the following religious traditions:

• Judaism
• Early Christianity (before 600 CE)
• Islam
• Buddhism

Address the following items in your presentation (slides and speaker notes):

• Explain the basic tenets of each religious tradition, and how they define an individual’s role in the world and his/her relationship with the deity.
• For each, include at least two examples of art which that tradition influenced. These examples can be in the form of:
• Visual arts (sculptures, paintings, drawings, etc.)
• Literature
• Music
• Architecture

Provide a brief summary of the important figures associated with each tradition and their contributions to its development.

Include in-text citations in the speaker notes for all outside information.