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Re: Types of Worship in India?
caitanya@torfree.net (Gary Stevason) writes:
>what percentage of the population would fit in each of these broad
>religious categories and indeed if any other categories would be required
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>to reasonably define India's religious diversity:
>Vaishnava ______ %
>Brahmin ________ %
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Shaivite _______ %
>Jain ___________ %
>Buddhist _______ %
>Muslim _________ %
>Other __________ %
>Atheist ________ %
> _______
> 100 %
>Thank you for any help you can extend. Your guess is better than mine. :-)
Brahmin is a religious category ? And Hinduism is not a
religious category when talking about India's religious diversity ?
If you are going to split Hinduism into Vaishnavities and
Shaivities etc, why not split Christianity into Catholics, Protestants etc
and Muslims in Shia and Suniis ?
Finally, all those Hindus who aren't shaivaities or vaishnavities
would be classified as "other" ?
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